Paul Keil
@pgkeil
human-nonhuman collaboration, shared worlds w/ wildlife, hunting, anthropology, cognition & ecology, elephants, pigs & humans
My book is released today. Yay! An ethnography of how humans share worlds with elephants at the forest fringes of Assam's capital city. Coexistence is explored through copresence & the vulnerability felt by both communities in their ambivalent relating taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.…
Ambika Aiyadurai again gathering together what looks like to be a wonderful set of papers exploring human-animal relations in marginalized societies of South Asia, especially of Dalits and Tribals. Looking forward to reading this cambridge.org/core/books/bei…
@LahkarBibhuti receives the prestigious Mark Shand Elephant Conservation Award on behalf of Aaranyak's Elephant Research and Conservation Division. Congratulations Team @aaranyak. Well deserved. @elephantfamily @britishasiantst @himantabiswa @cmpatowary @IUCN_AsESG @assamforest
The excellent Tereza Stöckelová up next in our seminar series on May 6 Register here: forms.office.com/Pages/Response…
The concrete just got load tested. #Mirza #Guwahati #Assam #Elephants
Really wonderful hosts, great questions, the kind I want to explore more (reciprocally and beyond the frame of my book). Also a reminder of how close to my heart mind, other minds, and inter-subjectivity and experience as a human animal topic has been.
I'll be chatting with Susan Harris and Anu Pande about my book for their Indian Animal Studies Collective Table Talk series, tomorrow at 15:00 CET. Looking forward to it! Register: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regist…
I'll be chatting with Susan Harris and Anu Pande about my book for their Indian Animal Studies Collective Table Talk series, tomorrow at 15:00 CET. Looking forward to it! Register: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regist…
after a fantastic talk this week, we have another scheduled in 2 weeks as part of our regular seminar series Tania Murray Li - Thursday March 20 register here - forms.office.com/e/rfKrvjTnE2
On the evening of 4th June 1908, a cargo train coming from Nakhon Ratchasima collided with an elephant in Pathum Thani. Three railway employees were killed. The incident made headlines in the French newspaper Le Petit Journal. #รถไฟไทย #thaitrain #railway #trains #Thailand #rail
Spoke to @pgkeil on The Presence of Elephants: Shared Lives and Landscapes in Assam for @NewBooksNetwork. It is an ethnography of coexistence, grounded in people’s everyday interactions with Asian elephants. @NewBooksAnthro @NewBooksSoc newbooksnetwork.com/the-presence-o…
Looking forward to this one with @GarethEnticott Register here: forms.office.com/e/yFU40JQ9Hz
Lost in the lore of the wilderness is the story of @manasnptr Kalachand Sarkar, the second civilian and also the second forester to have been awarded the Shaurya Chakra, the country's third highest gallantry award. @CMOfficeAssam @cmpatowary @assamforest
We have lost @LudditeNed. Travel well dear friend.
So much of my #photographic life has been spent in #Union meetings in Meghalaya. I don't know if meetings are worthy photographic subjects but somehow they have made me understand and participate in my world and its blighted times. So some union meeting images 🧵 1/n
Celý svět řeší hajlování Elona Muska na Trumpově inauguraci. A je to správně. Zatímco část veřejnosti vymýšlí, proč hajlování zachycené na stovkách kamer ve skutečnosti není hajlování, neonacisté a fašisté mají jasno: Elone, taky tě zdravíme od srdce! Vítězství zdar i tobě. Když…
Apologies, unlike the above image, @George_Iorda talk is actually 06.11 (I mistakenly posted an incomplete poster *groan*)
Elephant Killed By Jungle Railway. Popular Mechanics Volume 10, 1908 Interesting that over 115 years of that railway line colonising elephant worlds and the problem still persists. One of the earliest known occurrences of an elephant being mowed down by the iron horse.
