Living and Working with Giants: A Multispecies Ethnography of the Khamti and Elephant in Northeast India, by Nicolas Lainé
Reading this book took me back to my childhood when my mother often told me stories in which birds and animals, both wild and domesticated, communicated with humans in the languages of humans. I still remember the story of a domesticated magpie that she often recounted because the bird spoke in my...
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| Aineistotyyppi: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Kieli: | Anglais |
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European Bulletin of Himalayan Research
2022
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| Linkit: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Yhteenveto: | Reading this book took me back to my childhood when my mother often told me stories in which birds and animals, both wild and domesticated, communicated with humans in the languages of humans. I still remember the story of a domesticated magpie that she often recounted because the bird spoke in my ancestral language. One day, when an eagle snatched it from the veranda of my maternal grandfather’s house, the magpie kept repeating in my ancestral language, as loudly as possible and for as long... |
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