Nicolas Lainé

Institute of Research for Development | IRD · 208 - Local Heritage (PaLoc)

This article considers a broad perspective of "One Health" that includes local and animal knowledge. Drawing from various colonial efforts to link human, animal, and environmental health, it first shows that the current "One Health" initiative has its roots in colonial engagement and coincides with a need to secure the health of administrators (con...

This book proposes a multispecies ethnography of human-elephant working relationships in Northeast India, in the local context of the Khamti population. Based on an extended research fieldwork, it analyses not only people’s action but also animal involvement in ­establishing and maintaining trusting relationships at the workplace. Thanks to Nicolas...

Despite its recent growth in popularity since the COVID-19 pandemic, One Heath can be traced back to the colonial period when it was used to control the health of local communities and their animals while exploiting natural resources. At present, it is necessary to move away from this asymmetrical colonialist view and develop more inclusive perspec...

Composing Worlds with Elephants is an interdisciplinary dialogue exploring the historical, social, and ecological entanglement of humans and elephants, a thousands of years old interspecies connection that is multi-dimensional, ambivalent, and always changing. Focusing largely on elephants and peoples across Asia, the research in this volume addres...

This article explores the use of camera traps as novel research agents in studying human-animal interactions and animal behaviour. Drawing on case studies from ecological research in India and ritual practices in Thailand, the authors examine how camera traps transform methodologies across the natural and social sciences and ask what these technolo...

The project aimed at introducing the local health practices attributed to animals for their health and production through immediate available resources among local communities in India. The traditional practices of nearly 20 clinical conditions of animal health were introduced to the farmers of the specified geographical area under Doddaballapur ta...

Drawing on the history of human–elephant relationships in Brahmaputra uplands in precolonial, colonial, and contemporary periods, this article highlights at least long-standing two elephant management systems: the dominant power of each period with its corresponding war, imperialist, or conservation purposes and that of the local populations for wh...

Les agricultures ultra-marines font face aujourd’hui à de multiples changements. Leurs finalités et leurs impacts sur les socio-écosystèmes sont discutés localement. Fruit d’un travail collectif mobilisant un groupe d’experts, cette note traite de la contribution possible de la culture des plantes à parfum, aromatiques et médicinales (PPAM) à la du...

This special issue of Revue d’Anthropologie des Connaissances offers a reflection on the development of diverse proposals and perspectives in the humanities and social sciences regarding the “work of nature”. This introduction provides a general but non-exhaustive overview of the notion of work in the knowledge production systems of animal and envi...

Dans cet entretien, la sociologue Jocelyne Porcher revient sur la construction d’un nouveau champ de recherche en sciences sociales, le travail animal, situé au croisement de la sociologie du travail et des études animales. Revenant sur son cheminement intellectuel, qui s’enracine dans les apports de la psychodynamique du travail et plus largement...

Ce numéro de la Revue d’Anthropologie des Connaissances propose une réflexion sur le développement de propositions scientifiques dans les sciences humaines et sociales à propos du « travail de la nature ». Cette introduction dresse une cartographie générale, mais non exhaustive, des usages de la notion de travail dans les régimes de production de c...

In European Bulletin of Himalaya Research Issue 55 (2020)

Debates about emerging infectious diseases often oppose natural conceptions of zoonotic reservoirs with cultural practices bringing humans into contact with animals. This article compares the representations of cross-species pathogens at ontological levels below the opposition between nature and culture. It describes the perceptions of distinctions...

This article focuses on the phi muang, a collective of primordial spirits who live among the Khamti in Arunachal Pradesh, Northeast India. I first look into contextualizing the ritual expressions associated with the phi muang, based on the description of two associated territorial cults: the ceremony carried out in the context of wild elephant capt...

Wishing to bring to light the relationship to nature and the relationship to others among the Tai-Lue in Laos, I led broader reflections on the links between environment and health, biodiversity and cultural diversity, as well as on the co-construction of shared knowledge between humans and animals. The approach undertaken could prove fruitful in p...

This article considers a broad perspective of 'OneHealth' that includes local and animal knowledge. Drawing from various colonial efforts to link human, animal, and environmental health, it first shows that the current 'OneHealth' initiative takes its roots during the colonial engagement and coinciding with a need to secure the health of administra...

This article aims to report on a set of ethnoveterinary practices of mahouts and elephant health specialists (mo) in Laos. It is based on an ethnographic survey conducted in the villages of Tai- Lue and Tai-Lao in Sayabouri province in the northwest of the country. The corpus presented highlights similarities in the treatment of others both in term...

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 percepti...

Do animals work? Is it possible to work with animals without exploiting them? Might animals even be empowered through work? This provocative collection offers original answers to these questions and allows readers to think about human relationships with domestic animals beyond the well-trodden tropes of domination or animal welfare. To study animal...

Asian Bioethics Review, 11(2), 141-145

ACCEPTED/TO BE PUBLISHED IN ASIAN ETHNOLOGY This article focuses on the phi muangs, primordial deities who live among the Khamti in Arunachal Pradesh, Northeast India. I firstly looked to contextualizing the ritual expressions associated with the phi muang, based on the description of two associated territorial cults: the ceremony carried out in t...

Drawing from the example of Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) conservation in Laos, this article primarily intends to reveal the elephantocentric vision adopted by mainstream conservation project in direction to the species. In the second part, I will present some ethnographic notes collected among local population who daily live and work with pachy...

This chapter aims to highlight the perceptions of an indigenous population, the Khamti, who live and work daily with elephants in Northeast India, forgoing domestication. The Khamti do not breed but capture elephants in the forest and integrate them into the village. Why do they not domesticate their elephants? This question raises a further one: w...

In the last twenty years, a growing number of captive elephants have tested positive for tuberculosis (TB) in various institutions worldwide, causing public health concerns. This article discusses two localities where this concern has produced significant mobilizations to ask about the postcolonial resonances of this global response. The first case...

Prenant appui sur une ethnographie portant sur l’étude de différentes séquences de travail réalisées par les Khamti et par leurs éléphants dans le nord-est indien, cet article vise à interroger les implications d’un « travailler avec » les animaux. En s’appuyant sur des enregistrements vidéo, des entretiens et des anecdotes collectées sur le terrai...

Bo mee xang pa kor bo mee xang (without forest elephants, there are no more elephants) - The paper examines the evolution of status and local practices associated with elephants in Xayabouri Province in North-Western Laos. In this remote province, the study of the elephant’s population questions the links between village and forest elephants, and...

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Cet article souhaite rendre compte des liens entre populations locales et pachydermes à partir de deux enquêtes ethnographiques menées en Inde et au Laos. En explicitant les conditions du vivre-ensemble entre les Khamtis et les éléphants dans le Nord-Est indien, la première partie souligne la centralité du travail pour pérenniser les liens entre hu...

http://www.cairn.info/revue-ecologie-et-politique-2017-1-p-45.htm Cet article souhaite rendre compte des liens entre populations locales et pachydermes à partir de deux enquêtes ethnographiques menées en Inde et au Laos. En explicitant les conditions du vivre-ensemble entre les Khamtis et les éléphants dans le Nord-Est indien, la première partie so...

Prenant pour objet d’étude le dispositif de surveillance de la tuberculose des éléphants mis en place au Laos depuis 2013, cet article vise à rendre compte des enjeux et des défis que représente la surveillance de maladie animale dans un contexte global de conservation des espèces. Il s’appuie sur une enquête ethnographique dont l’intention était d...

Prenant pour objet d’étude le dispositif de surveillance de la tuberculose des éléphants mis en place au Laos depuis 2013, cet article vise à rendre compte des enjeux et des défis que représente la surveillance de maladie animale dans un contexte global de conservation des espèces. Il s’appuie sur une enquête ethnographique dont l’intention était d...

In India, the fate of the elephants has become a national priority in recent years. Considerable means are deployed to ensure their protection. To understand the stakes and the paradoxes of current actions, this article discusses the key highlights and the measures undertaken in favor of the species. Describing the process by which the animal becom...

RÉSUMÉ Dans un contexte de remise en cause de la présence animale au sein des sociétés humaines, cette thèse propose une analyse des conditions et des implications du vivre-ensemble entre les éléphants et les Khamti dans le Nord-Est indien. L"approche retenue se situe à la croisée de l"anthropologie des humains et des non-humains, de l"anthropologi...

Jayeeta Sharma. Empire's Garden: Assam and the Making of India. Durham, Duke University Press, 2011, 344 p. - Volume 68 Issue 1 - Nicolas Lainé

Le Nord-Est indien est cité dans les textes de l'époque ancienne comme étant une région où l'on trouve des éléphants sauvages en abondance. Ce lieu a donné naissance à de longues traditions relatives à la capture et à la domestication de l'animal. Le milieu naturel du Nord-Est constitue, il est vrai, un formidable habitat pour les éléphants. La rég...