Description Examines what Literature reveals about human attitudes towards elephants and who shows compassion towards them Elephants are in dire straits - again.
It is the story of a developing contestation between Death and compassion, between those who kill and those who love and protect.
It examines what these literatures imply about human attitudes towards elephants and who shows compassion towards them.
Death and Compassion is the first study to probe various literary genres.
It is the story of a developing contestation between Death and compassion, between those who kill and those who love and protect.
It examines what these literatures imply about the various and diverse attitudes towards elephants, about who shows compassion towards them, in what ways and why.
This book is the first study to probe the primary features, and possible effects, of some major literary genres as they pertain to elephants south of the Zambezi over three centuries: indigenous forms, early European travelogues, hunting accounts, novels, game ranger memoirs, scientists\' accounts, and poems.
As a society we must aspire to understand how and why people develop compassion - or fail to do so - and what stories we tell ourselves about animals that reveal the relationship between ourselves and animals.
Saving elephants is one of the iconic conservation struggles of our time.
This is at the same time that the reasons for being especially compassionate and protective towards elephants are now so well-known that they have become almost a clich their high intelligence, rich emotional lives including a capacity for mourning, caring matriarchal societal structures, that strangely charismatic grace.
Now, according to one estimate, an Elephant is being killed every fifteen minutes.
They were virtually extirpated from much of Africa by European hunters in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, but their numbers resurged for a while in the heyday of late-colonial conservation efforts in the twentieth.
Description Examines what Literature reveals about human attitudes towards elephants and who shows compassion towards them Elephants are in dire straits - again
