Piers started following the work of Louise Archer.
Piers started following the work of Pauline Bambrey.
Piers changed a position.
Piers Will be presenting a paper titled 'From Hunting to Conservation: The Skilled Conservation Biology Technicians of the Chitwan National Park, Nepal' at the Cultural Animals Symposium at the University... more
Faculty Member, School of Social and Political Sciences
Anthropology Department Coordinator
College of Arts
Thesis Title: History, Practice, Identity: An Institutional Ethnography of Elephant Handlers in Chitwan, Nepal
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Peter Parkes
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About
Piers Locke is a Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. He holds a BA(Hons) in Social Anthropology from the University of Kent, UK, a MA in South Asian Area Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK, and a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Kent, UK. He has held previous appointments at the University of Kent and at the University of Wales, Lampeter.
Piers has been conducting historical and ethnographic research on captive elephant management in Chitwan, Nepal since 2001. This research raises issues in; apprenticeship learning and expert knowledge, practice and identity in total institutions, human-animal intimacies and the ritual veneration of elephants, and the role of captive elephant management in nature tourism, protected area management and biodiversity conservation.
