Conflict, Negotiation, and Coexistence: Rethinking Human-Elephant Relations in South Asia
Edited by Piers Locke and Jane Buckingham
Oxford University Press, 2016
This new book arises from an international symposium that took place at the University of Canterbury in 2013. It brings together anthropologists, biologists,
ecologists, geographers, historians, political scientists, and Sanskrit literature specialists in order to explore humans, elephants, and environments in South Asia from the multispecies, interdisciplinary perspective of ethnoelephantology. This book may be considered the first book on human-elephant relations that seeks to integrate the expertise of academics from the social sciences, natural sciences, and humanities. The chapters in this book carry several policy implications, useful for government agencies and environmental activists concerned about environmental preservation in general and elephant welfare in particular. Conflict, Negotiation, and Coexistence also offers a critique of anthropocentrism and explores the ethics of animal rights and multi-species ethnography.
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