Festival elephants and the myth of global poverty
By: Glynn Cochrane.
Series: Anthropology works series
Publisher: Pearson
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 178
ISBN-13: 9780205577651
Subjects: Economic assistance -- Developing countries.; Poverty -- Developing countries.; International agencies -- Developing countries -- Sociological aspects.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-178).
Table of contents: value: The myth of global poverty; value: Lessons from elephants in Sri Lanka; value: A worker elephant apprenticeship in the Solomon Islands; value: Festival elephant culture shock in Papua New Guinea and Polynesia; value: Festival elephant grandstanding in Tanzania; value: Worker elephants in the mining industry; value: Reinventing worker elephant skills.