@inbook{0f31f9d8cfa743fba0b1a030cd7e566c,
title = "Guns, ivory and elephant graveyards: The biopolitics of elephants' teeth",
abstract = "Through contextualised readings of European travel accounts both real and fictional, and economic histories of the ivory trade, this chapter shows how the ivory trade obscured the contradictory status of elephants as both fragmented objects - 'delivery systems' for ivory - and sentient, intelligent beings living in complex social structures. 'Elephants' teeth' become fetishised European objects, their living origins obscured. This chapter examines the ecological and biopolitical impact of the European trade in Africa on its people and its 'more-than-human' denizens.",
author = "Lucinda Cole",
year = "2017",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "978-0-7294-1193-6",
volume = "2017-January",
series = "Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment",
pages = "35--55",
editor = "Quinsey, {Katherine M}",
booktitle = "Animals and Humans",
edition = "4",
}