%0 Book Section
%9 OS CH : Chapitres d'ouvrages scientifiques
%A Keil, P.
%A Lainé, Nicolas
%T Human-elephant worlds
%B The Routledge Companion to Northeast India
%C Abingdon (GBR) ; New York
%D 2023
%E Wouters, J.J.P.
%E Subba, T.B.
%L fdi:010087046
%G ENG
%I Routledge
%@ 978-0-367-72566-2
%K INDE ; ARUNACHAL PRADESH ; MEGHALAYA ; NAGALAND ; MYANMAR
%P 232-238
%R 10.4324/9781003285540-39
%U https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010087046
%> https://www.documentation.ird.fr/intranet/publi/2023-01/010087046.pdf
%W Horizon (IRD)
%X The relationship between humans and elephants has deeply shaped the cultures, environments, and histories of Northeast India. This entry provides an up-to-date overview of the emerging field of human-elephant studies, especially, the pioneering research by anthropologists, geographers, and historians who have studied variations of this world-shaping, interspecies interconnection in the region. The entry's synopsis extends to a proposal for four future directions that human-elephant research might take in Northeast India, including: a revaluation of the connection between elephants, ruling classes, and indigenous people; a systematic, ethnographic study of cultures of mahoutship; a re-appreciation of the socio- and geo-political position of the region through this interspecies relationship; and the need to diversify one's understanding of how humans and wild elephants co-exist.
%$ 106ANTHRO1 ; 070ANIGEN ; 114VIPOL