Romance, reverence, research, rights: Writing about elephant hunting and management in southern Africa, c.1830s to 2008
Romance, reverence, research, rights: Writing about elephant hunting and management in southern Africa, c.1830s to 2008
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浪漫、崇敬、研究、权利：撰写有关南非大象狩猎和管理的文章，约 1830 年代至 2008 年
DOI：
10.4102/koedoe.v52i1.880
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发表时间：
2010
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影响因子：
1.1
通讯作者：
J. Carruthers
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作者：
J. Carruthers
非洲国家公园里大型哺乳动物的保护和管理不仅仅是自然科学和科学家关注的问题。人文科学和社会科学将自然世界概念化的方式也很重要，因为自然既是科学的，也是文化的。这篇文章是对各种文学和科学文本中关于大象的写作（例如话语，词汇）随时间变化的方式的跨学科评估。它的目的是对一些关于大象的文献进行分析，以检查过去两个世纪以来，非洲南部的文化社会对大象狩猎和管理的变化反应。这篇综述表明，这些态度的变化产生了关于动物认知和同理心的新研究问题，同时也带来了对生态理解的新方向。保护意义：生物多样性保护是一门不精确的科学，甚至保护研究和保护管理之间的区别也不明确。此外，在关于应该“拯救”什么以及如何最好地实现这一目标的科学和大众讨论中，明显存在一定程度的情绪。自然是文化的，也是科学的，来自人文和社会科学的跨学科见解可以为保护区管理提供有益的信息。
The protection and management of large mammals in Africa’s national parks is not a matter to be left solely for the attention of natural science and scientists. The way in which the natural world is conceptualised by the humanities and social sciences is also significant, because nature is cultural as well as scientific. This article is an interdisciplinary appraisal of the manner in which the writing (e.g. discourse, vocabulary) about elephants in various literary and scientific texts has altered over time. It aims to provide an analysis of some of the literature about elephants in order to examine literate society’s changing responses to the hunting and management of elephants in southern Africa over the past two centuries. The review suggests that new research questions regarding animal cognition and empathy have been generated by these changing attitudes, in conjunction with fresh directions in ecological understanding. Conservation implications: Biodiversity conservation is an inexact science, and even the distinction between conservation research and conservation management is not clear-cut. Moreover, a degree of emotion is evident in scientific and popular discussions around what should be ‘saved’ and how best this might be achieved. Nature is cultural as well as scientific and interdisciplinary insights from the humanities and social sciences may beneficially inform protected area management.