{"product_id":"9780199467228","title":"Conflict, Negotiation, and Coexistence: Rethinking Human-Elephant Relations in South Asia","description":"\u003cbr\u003eAs formidable instruments of war, they have changed the destinies of empires.\u003cbr\u003eAs marauding crop raiders, they are despised. \u003cbr\u003eAs an endangered species, they are cherished.\u003cp\u003eNumerous and often contrasting are the ways in which elephants have been regarded by humans across millennia. Today, with reduced forest cover, human population expansion, and increasing industrialization, interaction between the two species is unavoidable and conflict is not mere happenstance. What, then, is the future of this relationship? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn South Asia, human-elephant relationships resonate with cultural significance. From the importance of elephants in ancient texts to the role of mahouts over centuries, from discussions on de-extinction to accounts of intimate companionship, the essays in this bookÂreveal the various dynamics of the relationship between two intelligent social mammals. Eschewing such binaries as human and animal or nature and culture, the essays present elephants as subjective agents who think, feel, and emote.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eConflict, Negotiation, and Coexistence\u003c\/em\u003e underscores the fact that we cannot understand elephant habitat and behaviour in isolation from the humans that help configure it. Significantly, nor can we understand human political, economic, and social life without the elephants that shape and share the world with them.Â\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47022609006832,"sku":"9780199467228","price":52.43,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780199467228_p0.jpg?v=1763669975","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780199467228","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}