Anthropology and conservation Commentary on Baker & Winkler on Elephant Rewilding

Nicolas Lainé (1, 2)

1 PALOC - Patrimoines locaux, Environnement et Globalisation
2 LAS - Laboratoire d'anthropologie sociale

Baker & Winkler make a welcome contribution to elephant conservation in Thailand in advocating a role for joint human/elephant labor and local expertise in rewilding. Their argument would benefit, however, if it drew more upon the local ethnographic evidence. Ethnocentric notions such as "welfare" and "wellbeing" may not fit into the local perception of pachyderms.

Domaines: Sciences de l'Homme et Société; Anthropologie sociale et ethnologie

Nicolas Lainé. Anthropology and conservation Commentary on Baker & Winkler on Elephant Rewilding. Animal Sentience, 2020, 310. ⟨hal-02493906⟩