Indigenous Heritage and Identity of the Last Elephant Catchers in Northeast Thailand

Alisa Santikarn (University of Vienna) is a University Assistant (Post-Doc) for the Global Conservation: Histories and Theories (GloCo) project funded by the European Research Council. She holds a PhD in Archaeology (Heritage Studies) from the University of Cambridge, where she also completed an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship.

• Acknowledgements, A Note on Transliteration and Thai Naming Conventions, List of Abbreviations, List of Illustrations, Preface, 1. Introduction, 2. Heritage, Authority, and the Anthropocene, 3. Formation of Attitudes Towards Indigenous and Ethnic Minority Communities in Thailand—from the Colonial Period to the Cold War, 4. Constructing the Authorised Environmental Discourse: Territorialisation and Indigeneity in Thailand, 5. Thailand's Authorised Heritage Discourse: Identity, Nationalism and 'Good Culture', 6. The Kui in Thailand: Identity, (In)Visibility, and (Mis)Recognition, 7. The Last Elephant Catchers: Cultural Endangerment and the Loss of Knowledge, 8. New Spaces for the Enactment of Kui Culture: Heritagisation and (Re)Invented Traditions, 9. Conclusion, Bibliography, Glossary, Bibliography.