Elephant Training in Nepal: Multispecies Ethnography and Rites of Passage

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dc.contributor.authorLocke, P.
dc.date.accessioned2014-12-04T22:53:41Z
dc.date.available2014-12-04T22:53:41Z
dc.date.issued2012en
dc.description.abstractIn this presentation Piers draws on his ethnographic research with working elephants and their handlers in the lowland national parks of Nepal, focussing in particular on elephant training at the Khorsor Elephant Breeding Centre. It is argued that the recently adapted elephant training practices do not merely consist of a practical process whereby juvenile elephants are made ready to respond to handlers in their future working lives. Rather, they also represent a rite of passage, by which both the principal handler and his elephant together achieve a new status. This ritual process is described in relation to anthropological theory developed by Van Gennep, Turner, and Bloch, but with the novel contention that it can also be applied to non-human persons. As such, this argument is also situated within the emerging field of multispecies ethnography, which claims that in a world of complex entanglements the object of anthropological enquiry can consist of more than just human beings.en
dc.identifier.citationLocke, P. (2012) Elephant Training in Nepal: Multispecies Ethnography and Rites of Passage. 23pp.en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10092/9993
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherUniversity of Canterbury. School of Language, Social and Political Sciencesen
dc.publisherUniversity of Canterbury. Anthropologyen
dc.rights.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10092/17651en
dc.subjectEnvironmental Anthropologyen
dc.subjectHuman-animal relationsen
dc.subjectmultispecies ethnographyen
dc.subjectrites of passageen
dc.subjecthuman-elephant relationsen
dc.subjectcaptive elephant managementen
dc.subjectelephant breedingen
dc.subjectChitwanen
dc.subjectNepalen
dc.subject.anzsrcField of Research::16 - Studies in Human Society::1601 - Anthropology::160199 - Anthropology not elsewhere classifieden
dc.titleElephant Training in Nepal: Multispecies Ethnography and Rites of Passageen
dc.typeDiscussion / Working Papers
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