LEADER 03896 am 2200673 n 450 001 9910520200003321 005 20240104030714.0 010 $a2-85653-929-7 035 $a(CKB)4100000012430908 035 $a(FrMaCLE)OB-mnhn-7855 035 $a(PPN)260399582 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000012430908 100 $a20220120j|||||||| ||| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $auu||||||m|||| 200 00$aLiving and working with giants$ea multispecies ethnography of the Khamtis and elephants in Northeast India$fNicolas Lainé 210 $aParis$cPublications scientifiques du Muséum$d2021 215 $a1 online resource (272 p.) 311 $a2-85653-928-9 330 $aThis book proposes a unique and immersive multispecies ethnography of the cooperative interaction between the Khamti and elephants in Northeast India. It is based on extended research fieldwork, which attempts not only to describe how the Khamti establish working relationships with elephants, but also considers the involvement of animals in this joint-venture. Through a step-by-step approach, the book addresses different aspects of the interspecies working unit from the beginning of Khamti-elephant association through to its evolvement at work. Back and forth from village to forest, through rich and meticulous descriptions, Nicolas Lainé brings the reader up close in following the capture of a juvenile forest elephant, documenting its transformation into a village elephant. In this unique way, Lainé shows how the initial human-animal bonds evolve and persist at work as a two-way, reciprocated process. The adopted multi-disciplinary approach allows thinking the human-elephant working unit in terms of intersubjective engagement. In its analysis, Nicolas Lainé took into consideration of the cognitive capacities and corporeal capabilities of humans and elephants, their reciprocal influences, and the representations that arise from specific contexts in which interspecies communication and collaboration is manifest. Hence, the proposition on interspecies labour sheds new light not only with respect to what we know (or we think we know) about animals, but also modifies our idea of domestication. At the workplace, humans and animals not only partake in a common world, but that they produce this world together and transform it through their collaboration. Beyond this, the book shows how the quality of shared living conditions for both animal and human are intrinsically linked. It opens doors to a new approach of species conservation and the realization of a very current and widespread aspiration: that of extending the mutually beneficial modalities of existence of humans? 606 $aAnthropology 606 $aKhamti 606 $aéléphant 606 $adomestication 606 $aethnographie multi-espèces 606 $atravail inter-espèces 606 $aInde du Nord-Est 606 $aconservation 606 $apeuple Tai 606 $aAsie du Sud 606 $aelephant 606 $amultispecies ethnography 606 $ainterspecies labor 606 $aNortheast India 606 $aTai people 606 $aSouth Asia 615 4$aAnthropology 615 4$aKhamti 615 4$aéléphant 615 4$adomestication 615 4$aethnographie multi-espèces 615 4$atravail inter-espèces 615 4$aInde du Nord-Est 615 4$aconservation 615 4$apeuple Tai 615 4$aAsie du Sud 615 4$aelephant 615 4$amultispecies ethnography 615 4$ainterspecies labor 615 4$aNortheast India 615 4$aTai people 615 4$aSouth Asia 700 $aLainé$b Nicolas$01312403 701 $aBarua$b Maan$01459190 801 0$bFR-FrMaCLE 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910520200003321 996 $aLiving and working with giants$93658540 997 $aUNINA