Adivasi (Tea Tribe) worldviews of living close to wild Asian elephants in Assam, India
Sayan Banerjee, Dibakar Nayak, Anindya Sinha · 2024
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Sayan Banerjee, Dibakar Nayak, and Anindya Sinha study how a tea-garden community in Assam lives beside wild elephants in a paper from two thousand twenty-four. Barriers and other technical fixes for human-elephant conflict have often failed over time. The authors argue such fixes ignore the history that shaped today's encounters.
Fieldwork in Udalguri district gathered life stories and daily accounts from the Adivasi, or Tea Tribe, community. People read elephant moves, diets, and calls closely, and their tales link elephant hardship to their own losses of land and food. Empathy runs through these accounts. The authors suggest that living as uneasy neighbors, rather than apart, could guide conservation policy.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Sayan Banerjee, Dibakar Nayak, Anindya Sinha |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 50 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |