On the trails of free-roaming elephants: human-elephant mobility and history across the Indo-Myanmar Highlands
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/TRANS.2020.10020302" target="_blank" >10.3167/TRANS.2020.10020302</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
On the trails of free-roaming elephants: human-elephant mobility and history across the Indo-Myanmar Highlands
Original language description
Humans and elephants have historically shared the forested mountain ranges of Zomia, a geography defined by the regular movement of people and an ecology shaped by the movement of its elephant population. This article will examine how free-roaming elephant pathways facilitated human mobility in the highlands defining the Indo-Myanmar border. It will analyze the more-than-human agency that emerges when following elephant trails and the varying role this forest infrastructure might have played in the social and political history of the region. The article will explore two historical examples. First, the migration of a Lisu community in Upper Myanmar who utilized elephant paths to navigate their passage. Second, how the British Empire exploited a network of elephant-human tracks to subjugate the peoples living in Mizoram, northeast India. In these regions the patterns of migration, history of colonization, and identities and practices of communities must be understood in relation to wild elephants.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50404 - Anthropology, ethnology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Transfers
ISSN
2045-4813
e-ISSN
2045-4821
Volume of the periodical
10
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2-3
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
21
Pages from-to
62-82
UT code for WoS article
000658778800005
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85102115644