Indigenous Heritage and Identity of the Last Elephant Catchers in Northeast Thailand
Alisa Santikarn
- Titel
- Indigenous Heritage and Identity of the Last Elephant Catchers in Northeast Thailand
- Auteur
- Alisa Santikarn
- Prijs
- € 129,00 excl. BTW
- ISBN
- 9789048561995
- Uitvoering
- Hardback
- Aantal pagina's
- 294
- Taal
- Engels
- Publicatiedatum
- 17 - 03 - 2025
- Afmetingen
- 15.6 x 23.4 cm
- Serie
- Asian Heritages
- Partner
- Categorieën
- Anthropology
- Contemporary History
- Contemporary Society
- Heritage Studies
- Modern History
- South East Asia
- Sociology and Social History
- Discipline
- Aziëstudies
Acknowledgements
A Note on Transliteration and Thai Naming Conventions
List of Abbreviations
List of Illustrations
Preface
1. Introduction
2. Heritage, Authority, and the Anthropocene
3. Formation of Attitudes Towards Indigenous and Ethnic Minority Communities in Thailand—from the Colonial Period to the Cold War
4. Constructing the Authorised Environmental Discourse: Territorialisation and Indigeneity in Thailand
5. Thailand’s Authorised Heritage Discourse: Identity, Nationalism and ‘Good Culture’
6. The Kui in Thailand: Identity, (In)Visibility, and (Mis)Recognition
7. The Last Elephant Catchers: Cultural Endangerment and the Loss of Knowledge
8. New Spaces for the Enactment of Kui Culture: Heritagisation and (Re)Invented Traditions
9. Conclusion
Bibliography
Glossary
Bibliography
A Note on Transliteration and Thai Naming Conventions
List of Abbreviations
List of Illustrations
Preface
1. Introduction
2. Heritage, Authority, and the Anthropocene
3. Formation of Attitudes Towards Indigenous and Ethnic Minority Communities in Thailand—from the Colonial Period to the Cold War
4. Constructing the Authorised Environmental Discourse: Territorialisation and Indigeneity in Thailand
5. Thailand’s Authorised Heritage Discourse: Identity, Nationalism and ‘Good Culture’
6. The Kui in Thailand: Identity, (In)Visibility, and (Mis)Recognition
7. The Last Elephant Catchers: Cultural Endangerment and the Loss of Knowledge
8. New Spaces for the Enactment of Kui Culture: Heritagisation and (Re)Invented Traditions
9. Conclusion
Bibliography
Glossary
Bibliography
Alisa Santikarn
Indigenous Heritage and Identity of the Last Elephant Catchers in Northeast Thailand
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In 2019, when Mew Salangam passed away at 91, newspapers across Thailand described him as belonging to the “last generation of elephant doctors.” Mew was a member of the Kui Ajiang community in Thailand, an Indigenous group living in the Northeast known for catching elephants. Sometime beginning in the 1950s, this practice gradually came to an end. This book examines how the end of elephant catching has affected the heritage and identity of the Kui Ajiang, offering an analysis that calls for close attention to the broader currents of Thai history and the development of Thai environmental and cultural heritage policies.
This book introduces the term Authorised Environmental Discourse (AED) in tandem with Laurajane Smith’s Authorised Heritage Discourse (AHD) to portray how heritage embedded in nature and culture reflects impacts of political authority and how a community responds to threats of loss and challenges to the authenticity of its traditions.
This book introduces the term Authorised Environmental Discourse (AED) in tandem with Laurajane Smith’s Authorised Heritage Discourse (AHD) to portray how heritage embedded in nature and culture reflects impacts of political authority and how a community responds to threats of loss and challenges to the authenticity of its traditions.
Auteur
Alisa Santikarn
Alisa Santikarn (University of Cambridge) is an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research at the University of Cambridge. She holds a PhD in Archaeology from the University of Cambridge, where she also received her MPhil in Archaeological Heritage and Museums and BA (Hons) in Human, Social, and Political Sciences.
