Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Introduction: Conflict, Coexistence, and the Challenge of Rethinking HumanElephant Relations- Piers Locke
Part One: Humans and Elephants through Time
1: The HumanElephant Relationship through the Ages: A Brief Macro-Scale History - Raman Sukumar
2: Towards a Deep History of Mahouts - Thomas R. Trautmann
3: Science of Elephants in Kau?ilyas Arthas=astra - Patrick Olivelle
4: Symbolism and Power: Elephants and Gendered Authority in the Mughal World - Jane Buckingham
5: Trans-Species Colonial Fieldwork: Elephants as Instruments and Participants in Mid-Nineteenth-Century India -Julian Baker
6: The Hall of Extinct Monsters: Mammoths, Elephants, and Nature in the Palaeo-Future - Amy L. Fletcher
Part Two: Living with Elephants
7: Animals, Persons, Gods: Negotiating Ambivalent Relationships with Captive Elephants in Chitwan, Nepal - Piers Locke
8: Conduct and Collaboration in HumanElephant Working Communities of Northeast India -Nicolas Lainé
9: Cultural Values and Practical Realities in Sri Lankan HumanElephant Relations - Niclas Klixbüll
Part Three: Sharing Space with Elephants
10: Conservation and the History of HumanElephant Relations in Sri Lanka - Charles Santiapillai and S. Wijeyamohan
11: ElephantHuman Dandi : How Humans and Elephants Move through the Fringes of Forest and Village - Paul G. Keil
12: Challenges of Coexistence: HumanElephant Conflicts in Wayanad, Kerala, South India - Ursula Münster
13: Ethnic Diversity and HumanElephant Conflict in the Nilgiris, South India - Tarsh Thekaekara and Thomas F. Thornton
Bibliography
About the Editors and Contributors
Index

About the Author

Piers Locke teaches anthropology at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. In 2015, he was a fellow at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Munich, Germany. Jane Buckingham teaches history at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. She specializes in Indian history and has published on Indian colonial and post-colonial medicine and law, and on ancient Indian models of business ethics.

Reviews

The subject matter is very topical... This book provides a fairly comprehensive overview of the relationships and conflicts between humans and elephants in south and south-east Asia. The cultural context approach offered by some of the authors is unusual and intruiguing and could be useful in informing more effective strategies for intervention by land use planners and policy-makers.
*Lisa Yon, Animal Welfare*