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20 janvier 2022
- handle: 10670/1.zrcdrj
- isbn: 9782856539286
- eisbn: 9782856539293
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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 JHMSujets proches
Northeastern India Northeast India Animals, Domestication ofCiter ce document
Nicolas Lainé, « Mela shikar », Publications scientifiques du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, ID : 10670/1.zrcdrj
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Capturing elephant in Northeast India The Khamti are experts in capturing elephants. They do it using a method called mela shikar. The term comes from Assamese (and Hindi) combining fair (mela) and hunting (shikar). This method consists of catching a wild elephant with a large rope, the phand used as a lasso that comes to circle a leg or neck of the animal. This method requires the presence of a village adult elephant, or konkie. The konkie lets the catchers get close to wild animals in the f...