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Living and working with giants : a multispecies ethnography of the Khamti and elephants in Northeast India

Auteur : Nicolas Lainé


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Une ethnographie des relations de travail entre hommes et éléphants au sein de la population Khamti, qui vit au nord-est de l'Inde. De la capture de l'animal à sa domestication, cette approche multidisciplinaire montre la dynamique qui se crée entre les humains et les pachydermes, les engagements réciproques qui sont naturellement pris et les modalités bénéfiques pour les deux espèces. ©Electre 2024

Living and working with giants a multispecies ethnography of the Khamti and elephants in Northeast India

This book proposes a multispecies ethnography of human-elephant working relationships in Northeast India, in the local context of the Khamti population. Based on an extended research fieldwork, it analyses not only people's action but also animal involvement in establishing and maintaining trusting relationships at the workplace. Thanks to Nicolas Lainé rich descriptions, the reader can follow the capture of a juvenile forest elephant, and understand its transformation into a village elephant as a reciprocal process. Both cognitive capacities and corporeal capabilities of humans and elephants are taken into consideration, as well as their mutual influences and the representations that arise from the specific contexts of interspecies communication and collaboration. The adopted multidisciplinary approach allows thinking the human-animal working unit in terms of cooperative interaction, and even intersubjective engagement - opening to reflexions on the mutually beneficial modalities of existence of humans and animals in a shared environment.

« Living and Working with Giants is a critical intervention in thinking about the Anthropocene - and I use the term Plantationocene to mark the significance of Lainé's work - for it shows how various forms of forestry and the capture and taming of wildlife were contingent on both human and elephant labour. [...] Tracking surviving modes of elephant capture among the Khamti community in Arunachal Pradesh and adjacent Assam in northeast India, Lainé's scholarship is multispecies ethnography in its best sense. [...] [He] prompts us to rethink the forms of discipline and the subjectivities that colonial and postcolonial regimes produced » (Maan Barua, University of Cambridge).

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Paru le : 19/11/2020

Thématique : Ethnologie Asie du Sud-Est et Méridionale

Auteur(s) : Auteur : Nicolas Lainé

Éditeur(s) : Publications scientifiques du Muséum

Collection(s) : Natures en sociétés

Contributeur(s) : Préfacier : Maan Barua

Série(s) : Non précisé.

ISBN : 978-2-85653-928-6

EAN13 : 9782856539286

Reliure : Broché

Pages : 272

Hauteur: 24.0 cm / Largeur 17.0 cm


Épaisseur: 1.6 cm

Poids: 1000 g