After the king of beasts : Samuel Baker and the embodied historical geographies of elephant hunting in mid-nineteenth-century Ceylon

Auteur(s) et Affiliation(s)

LORIMER, J.

Dept. of Geography, King's College, London, Royaume-Uni

WHATMORE, S.

School of Geography, Univ. Centre for the Environment, Oxford, Royaume-Uni

Description :
The paper focuses on the exploits of S. Baker and some of his contemporaries. It critically engages with existing work on hunting and colonial natural history by examining interwoven human and nonhuman experiences, exploring elephant hunting as a collection of embodied and co-evolutionary processes with complex material histories.

Type de document :
Article de périodique

Source :
Journal of historical geography, issn : 0305-7488, 2009, vol. 35, n°. 4, p. 668-689, nombre de pages : 22

Date :
2009

Editeur :
Pays édition : Royaume-Uni, London ; New York, NY ; San Francisco, CA, Academic Press

Langue :
Anglais