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    Ethnoelephantology and The Multispeces Turn- New Approaches to Human-Elephant Relations (2014)

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    Humans and elephants have lived together and shared space together in diverse ways for millennia. The intersections between these thinking and feeling species have been differently explored, for different reasons, by disciplines across the sciences, humanities, and social sciences. Such disciplinary divisions, predicated on oppositions of human/animal and nature/culture, are integral to the configuration of modernist thought. However, posthumanist and biocultural thinking questions the underlying epistemological conventions, thereby opening up interdisciplinary possibilities for human-animal studies. In relation to issues of conflict and coexistence, this paper charts the emergence of an interdisciplinary research programme and discursive space for human-elephant intersections under the rubric of ethnoelephantology. Recognizing continuities between the sentient and affective lifeworlds of humans and elephants, the mutual entanglements of their social, historical, and ecological relations, and the relevance of combining social and natural science methodologies, it surveys recent research from anthropology, history, and geography that exemplifies this new approach.

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    Locke P (2014). Ethnoelephantology and The Multispeces Turn- New Approaches to Human-Elephant Relations.
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    Keywords
    ethnoelephantology; multispecies ethnography; more-than-human geography; trans-species history; captive elephant management; elephant conservation; human-elephant conflict; human-elephant relations
    ANZSRC Fields of Research
    20 - Language, Communication and Culture::2002 - Cultural Studies::200299 - Cultural Studies not elsewhere classified
    16 - Studies in Human Society::1601 - Anthropology::160199 - Anthropology not elsewhere classified
    21 - History and Archaeology::2199 - Other History and Archaeology::219999 - History and Archaeology not elsewhere classified

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