Back Then It Was Culture, Now It Is Animal Torture Moral-Phenomenological Milieu of Human-Elephant Entanglements in Kerala

• Main Author: Karippal, Anu (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Geneva Graduate Institute Publications 2023
• Series: eCahiers de l'Institut
• Subjects: Anthropology; culture religion and identity; environment and natural resources; tradition; animal rights; conservation
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Interrogating responses and reactions and the atmosphere of fear that my presence instigated, this paper critically examines human-elephant relations in Kerala amidst the bigger debates on animal rights, the emergence of elephants as a flagship species of conservation, and concerns regarding elephan...