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

@article{citeulike:5343055, abstract = {This paper draws on and develops a range of concepts and methodologies from 'more-than-human' and animal geographies to map some embodied historical geographies of elephant hunting in mid-nineteenth-century Ceylon. It focuses in particular on the exploits of Samuel Baker and some of his contemporaries. The paper attends to the attachments, crossings and ethics that passed between hunted and hunting bodies to flesh out the colonial visions of these 'seeing men' of empire. 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. Drawing out the importance of embodiment, affect and intercorporeal exchange the paper then reflects on the performance, epistemology and ethics of hunting practice and traces the role played by a code of sportsmanship in orientating and legitimating the ethical sensibility of hunting. In conclusion the paper details what is gained from this style of embodied historical analysis which unsettles any simple spatio-temporal territorialisation of (post-) colonial historical geographies.}, author = {Lorimer, Jamie and Whatmore, Sarah}, citeulike-article-id = {5343055}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2008.11.002}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0305748808001266}, day = {12}, doi = {10.1016/j.jhg.2008.11.002}, issn = {03057488}, journal = {Journal of Historical Geography}, keywords = {19thcentury, animalgeographies, ceylon, hunting, imperialism}, month = {October}, number = {4}, pages = {668--689}, posted-at = {2009-10-14 11:22:15}, priority = {2}, title = {After the 'king of beasts': Samuel Baker and the embodied historical geographies of elephant hunting in mid-nineteenth-century Ceylon}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2008.11.002}, volume = {35}, year = {2009} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:5343055 L3 - citeulike-article-id:5343055 N2 - This paper draws on and develops a range of concepts and methodologies from ‘more-than-human’ and animal geographies to map some embodied historical geographies of elephant hunting in mid-nineteenth-century Ceylon. It focuses in particular on the exploits of Samuel Baker and some of his contemporaries. The paper attends to the attachments, crossings and ethics that passed between hunted and hunting bodies to flesh out the colonial visions of these ‘seeing men’ of empire. 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. Drawing out the importance of embodiment, affect and intercorporeal exchange the paper then reflects on the performance, epistemology and ethics of hunting practice and traces the role played by a code of sportsmanship in orientating and legitimating the ethical sensibility of hunting. In conclusion the paper details what is gained from this style of embodied historical analysis which unsettles any simple spatio-temporal territorialisation of (post-) colonial historical geographies. IS - 4 JF - Journal of Historical Geography SN - 03057488 EP - 689 TI - After the ‘king of beasts’: Samuel Baker and the embodied historical geographies of elephant hunting in mid-nineteenth-century Ceylon VL - 35 SP - 668 KW - 19thcentury KW - animalgeographies KW - ceylon KW - hunting KW - imperialism AU - Lorimer, Jamie AU - Whatmore, Sarah PY - 2009/10/12/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2008.11.002 ER -