SOAS ELEPHANT CONFERENCE 2016 – PROCEEDINGS
CONTENTS OF THE BOOK
[These are the articles as they will appear in the book. In alphabetical order of presenters. ]
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0. PREFACE [Pending]
1. On the deification of Guruvayur
Kesavan: Making of an animal religious subject through cultural productions
Tresa Abraham (IIT Bombay) [Download
PDF of paper]
2. Trunk Calls in Antiquity
Shibani Bose [Department of History,
University of Delhi] [Pending]
3. Cultural aberrations in the management
of captive elephants
Prajna Chowta [Aane Mane Foundation,
Bangalore, India] [Download
PDF of paper]
4. Elephants in Islamic history
William G. Clarence-Smith [SOAS,
University of London] [Download
PDF of paper]
5. Contribution of comparative genetics to
the understanding of the evolution and distribution of elephants
Régis Debruyne [Muséum National d'Histoire
Naturelle, Paris] [Pending]
6. Imagining the inner life of the Asian elephant
in India
Rachel Dwyer [SOAS, University of London] [Pending]
7. The Elephant in England
Ed Emery [SOAS, University of London] [Download PDF
of paper]
8. Elephant trade in Sonepur: Illegal
wildlife trade under the guise of tradition?
Shubhobroto Ghosh [TRAFFIC India] [Download PDF
of paper]
9. Elephants in modern Afghanistan: From
imperial functionality to post-colonial national foil
Shah Mahmoud Hanifi [James Madison
University (USA)] [Download
PDF of paper]
10. Wildlife Crime, legal prosecution and experience
in combatting Wildlife Crime in the illegal trade of elephant calves in Sri
Lanka
Sujeewa Jasinghe and Sudarshani Fernando
[Centre for Eco-cultural Studies (CES), Diyakapilla, Sri Lanka] [Pending]
11. The intertwined and co-shaped pathways
of elephants and humans in the forests of Assam, North-east India
Paul G. Keil [Macquarie University,
Sydney, Australia] [Download PDF
of paper]
Nicolas Lainé [Laboratoire d'Anthropologie
Sociale, Collège de France (Paris)]
[Via video] [Pending]
13. Elephant training in Nepal: Rites of
passages in an interspecies community
Piers Locke [University of Canterbury, New
Zealand] [Download
PDF of paper]
14.
The journeys of elephants: An Indian circus trail
Nisha P R [Department of History,
University of Delhi] [Pending]
15. What a spectacle: Touring elephants
and scientific investigation in the early Royal Society
Florencia Pierri [Princeton University] [Pending]
16. Elephant ecology and the emergence of
the state in Great Lakes Africa
Andrew Reid [Institute of Archaeology,
University College London] [Download PDF
of paper]
17. Elephants on board the Manila Galleon:
From exotic gifts to Hispanic-Philippine ivory sculptures
Ana Ruiz Gutiérrez [University of Granada]
[Download PDF
of paper]
18. Corruption in the Keddah: Elephants,
fraud and environmental history in colonial Burma
Jonathan Saha [University of Leeds] [Pending]
19. Elephants, zamindars and state:
History of contested hunting rights in Western Assam
Arupjyoti Saikia [Indian Institute of
Technology Guwahati] [Pending]
20. Topsy, an elephant we must never forget
Kim Stallwood [Independent scholar] [Download
PDF of paper]
21. Knowledge of the elephant since
ancient times
Raman Sukumar [Centre for Ecological
Studies, IISc, Bangalore] [Pending]
22. "A sense of place": finding
a balance between African elephant and large trees in the savanna
Maria Thaker, Abi Tamim Vanak, Rob Slotow
[Indian Institute of Science; Ashoka Trust
for Research in Ecology and the Environment; and University of KwaZulu-Natal]
[Pending]
23. Local Celebrities – Stories of elephant
personalities in the Gudalur Region of the Nilgiris, South India
Tarsh Thekaekara [Shola Trust, Nilgiris
and Open University] [Download
PDF of paper]
24. Shooting an elephant
Thomas R. Trautmann [University of
Michigan] [Presentation via video] [Download
PDF of paper]
25. Fencing in the megaherbivore
Abi Tamin Vanak, Maria Thaker and Rob
Slotow [Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment; Indian
Institute of Science; University of KwaZulu-Natal] [Pending]
26. In God's own country: Elephants as
religious and cultural icons, and as celebrities
Sreedhar Vijayakrishnan and Anindya
Sinha [Indian Institute of Science,
Bangalore / Nature Conservation Foundation, Mysore] [Pending]