Indigenous Heritage and Identity of the Last Elephant Catchers in Northeast Thailand
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Indigenous Heritage and Identity of the Last Elephant Catchers in Northeast Thailand

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Indigenous Heritage and Identity of the Last Elephant Catchers in Northeast Thailand

About this book

In 2019, when Mew Salangam passed away at 91, newspapers across Thailand described him as belonging to the last generation of elephant doctors. Mew was a member of the Kui Ajiang community in Thailand, an Indigenous group living in the Northeast known for catching elephants. Sometime beginning in the 1950s, this practice gradually came to an end. Indigenous Heritage and Identity of the Last Elephant Catchers in Northeast Thailand examines how the end of elephant catching has affected the heritage and identity of the Kui Ajiang, offering an analysis that calls for close attention to the broader currents of Thai history and the development of Thai environmental and cultural heritage policies. Furthermore, the term Authorised Environmental Discourse (AED) is introduced in tandem with Laurajane Smith's Authorised Heritage Discourse (AHD) to portray how heritage embedded in nature and culture reflects impacts of political authority and how a community responds to threats of loss and challenges to the authenticity of its traditions.

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Yes, you can access Indigenous Heritage and Identity of the Last Elephant Catchers in Northeast Thailand by Alisa Santikarn in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Historia & Política pública de planificación local y regional. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. cover
  2. halftitle
  3. pub
  4. Title
  5. copyrights
  6. content
  7. ack
  8. fm01
  9. fm02
  10. fm03
  11. preface
  12. 1 Introduction
  13. 2 Heritage, Authority, and the Anthropocene
  14. 3 Formation of Attitudes Towards Indigenous and Ethnic Minority Communities in Thailand—from the Colonial Period to the Cold War
  15. 4 Constructing the Authorised Environmental Discourse : Territorialisation and Indigeneity in Thailand
  16. 5 Thailand’s Authorised Heritage Discourse : Identity,Nationalism, and “Good Culture”
  17. 6 The Kui in Thailand: Identity, (In)Visibility, and (Mis)Recognition
  18. 7 The Last Elephant Catchers : Cultural Endangerment and the Loss of Knowledge
  19. 8 New Spaces for the Enactment of Kui Culture : Heritagisation and (Re)Invented Traditions
  20. 9 Conclusion
  21. Glossary
  22. Index