1st Edition
The Presence of Elephants Sharing Lives and Landscapes in Assam
By Paul G. Keil
Copyright 2025
184 Pages
31 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
184 Pages
31 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
184 Pages
31 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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How to dwell in a forest alongside giants, avoid disturbing a living god, assist an animal with their manners, and help an elephant cross the road. The Presence of Elephants is an anthropological consideration of coexistence, grounded in people’s everyday interactions with Asian elephants. Drawing on two years of ethnographic fieldwork in Assam, Northeast India, this book examines... Read more
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Exclusive landscape, fragmented relations
2 Exchanges with a hungry god
3 Scaffolding giants
4 Corresponding with wild neighbours
5 Collaborative solidarity and reclaiming the local
6 Conclusion
Bibliography
Biography
Paul G. Keil is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Ethnology at the Czech Academy of Sciences and an honorary postdoctoral fellow with the Department of Anthropology, Macquarie University, Australia. He is the co-editor of Composing Worlds with Elephants: Interdisciplinary Dialogues.
