Indigenous Heritage and Identity of the Last Elephant Catchers in Northeast Thailand
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...
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| description | 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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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1519982025-07-21T15:44:43Z Indigenous Heritage and Identity of the Last Elephant Catchers in Northeast Thailand Santikarn, Alisa Culture, Communities, Tradition, Elephants, thai thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies::JBCC6 Cultural studies: customs and traditions thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social and cultural anthropology thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSL Ethnic studies::JBSL1 Ethnic groups and multicultural studies::JBSL11 Indigenous peoples thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPN Indigenous people: governance and politics thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies::JBCC6 Cultural studies: customs and traditions thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social and cultural anthropology thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSL Ethnic studies::JBSL1 Ethnic groups and multicultural studies::JBSL11 Indigenous peoples thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPN Indigenous people: governance and politics 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. 2025-02-17T05:12:06Z 2025-02-17T05:12:06Z 2025-02-10T13:29:53Z 2025 book https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/98404 9789048561995 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/151998 eng open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/98404/1/9789048562008.pdf Amsterdam University Press 10.5117/9789048561995 10.5117/9789048561995 de2ecbe7-1037-4e96-8c3a-5a842d921e04 9789048561995 260 Amsterdam open access |
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| title | Indigenous Heritage and Identity of the Last Elephant Catchers in Northeast Thailand |
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| title_short | Indigenous Heritage and Identity of the Last Elephant Catchers in Northeast Thailand |
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