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20 janvier 2022
- handle: 10670/1.q7vue5
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Khamti éléphant domestication ethnographie multi-espèces travail inter-espèces Inde du Nord-Est conservation peuple Tai Asie du Sud Khamti elephant domestication multispecies ethnography interspecies labor Northeast India conservation Tai people South Asia Anthropology SOC002000 JHMCiter ce document
Nicolas Lainé, « Music to create bonds », Publications scientifiques du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, ID : 10670/1.q7vue5
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Singing to socialise elephants During the two steps of this operation, two specific chants are continuously intoned to the elephant by the Khamti trainer. Considered as mandatory by all the phandi and mahouts interviewed during fieldwork, I was told that through the sounds of a melody, words exert power over the animal. According to the Khamti, it is only by singing that elephants will listen to them. Elephant sensitivity t...