16 mars 2023
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Anu Karippal, « Conclusion », Graduate Institute Publications, ID : 10.4000/books.iheid.9053
Satheeshan showed me a photoshopped picture of him next to a hippopotamus on his phone and said, ‘if there are no more captive elephants, I will have to stand like this.’ It was a joke and we both laughed. But if there is a next life and if Satheeshan is not around, then Satheeshan would prefer Shekharan elephant to remain in the forest. For most of my informants, it wasn’t the big debates on elephant captivity that mattered, but the local moralities emerging from the ordinary relations that...