Food, ritual and interspecies intimacy in the Chitwan elephant stables: a photo essay
This photo essay focuses on the hattisar, or elephant stable, a multispecies institution where humans and elephants live together in intimate and mutually entangled ways. The Nepali hattisar was historically staffed by the indigenous Tharu, who captured and tamed elephants for the rulers of Nepal fo...
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| Language: | English |
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University of Edinburgh Library
2013-06-01
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| Series: | The South Asianist |
| Online Access: | http://www.southasianist.ed.ac.uk/article/view/82 |