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Anthrozoology
Definition of Anthrozoology
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Section: ethology
An old, experienced mahout from Kandy, Sri Lanka. Photo: © Dan Koehl, 33rd Annual Nawam Maha Perahera at Gangaramaya Temple in Colombo, 2012
Relevant Literature about Anthrozoology
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Anthrozoology (also known as "human–animal studies") is the study of interaction between living things. It is an interdisciplinary field that overlaps with a number of other disciplines, including anthropology,
Ethology
, medicine, psychology, veterinary medicine and zoology. A major focus of anthrozoologic
Research
is the quantifying of the positive effects of human-animal relationships on either party and the study of their interactions. It includes scholars from a diverse range of fields, including anthropology, sociology, biology, and philosophy.
People in Asia who own or care for elephants, referred to as
Mahouts
, has often long traditions of management and training of elephants, as well as capture wild elephants, although the tradition and knowledge about capture, taming and training of wild elephants may soon become absent, since capture of wild elephants in severall regions are prohibited, and under criticism from animal rights
Groups
.
In Southeast Asia, the
Mahouts
often belong to either
Karen
,
Kuy
, or
Mnong
people.
Reference list
Koehl, Dan, (2024).
Anthrozoology
. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 20 September 2021 at
https://www.elephant.se/index.php?id=195
. (
archived
at the
Wayback machine
)
Sources used for this article is among others:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthrozoology
Selected publications
Links about Anthrozoology
Selected external links
for this article
about Anthrozoology:
Vortkamp, Jean; For the love of elephants: Mahoutship and elephant conservation in Thailand, at
https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.464.8183&rep=rep1&type=pdf
Hart, Lynette; University of California, Davis, Family Traditions for Mahouts of Asian Elephants,
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/233486390_Family_Traditions_for_Mahouts_of_Asian_Elephants
Nishant M. Srinivasaiah, Surendra Varma, and Raman Sukumar, Documenting Indigenous Traditional Knowledge of the Asian Elephant in Captivity, Asian Nature Conservation Foundation (ANCF), at
http://www.asiannature.org/sites/default/files/Elephants%20and%20Mahouts-%20Final%20Report%205March14.pdf
Hart, Lynette; Human-elephant interactions: “You never get enough of an elephant”,
https://iahaio.org/iahaio-2021-conference/plenary-human-elephant-interactions-you-never-get-enough-of-an-elephant-lynette-hart/
Anthrozoology mentioned on our sister website www.elephant-news.com
2020-07-30
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