The Elephant in Isan Literature: Assembly created the identity and cultural meaning
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This article aims to study elephants in an animal identity and cultural meaning through the Isan literatures 3: Thao cut thanam, Nang Phom Hom, and Sang Sin Chai. By using the concept animal study program. To investigate and find out. Isan literatures has cultural meaning, however. A study of identity to the elephants were: 1) Creating an identity crisis for elephants. Reflects discrimination cut off and crowding animals away from human society. On the basis of the concept. Elephant are wild animals is barbaric. Cruelty and nature 2) the identity of the great elephant. The wear behavior and features booth emotional intelligence and the ability of some to humans. And elevated to amoral good to doing it. The issue of cultural meaning that 1) the elephant as symbol of Supernatural power. There are mysteries difficult to weep and beyond human control. 2) the elephants as a symbol of racial dating and gender. A creature with the power to create fertile conditions, which is linked to the importance of gender between female and male.
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