Raute Macaque Coexistence: An Ethnography from the Mid-hills of Nepal.

Ethnography of Raute Macaque Coexistence. This video comes from my doctoral fieldwork with the Raute, one of Nepal's last nomadic hunting-and-gathering communities, in the forests of the Karnali River corridor (Surkhet and Dailekh districts). For generations, the Raute have moved through these hills, building temporary camps, crafting wooden bowls and boxes to trade with farming villages, and hunting macaques and langurs as part of a way of life that ties people, animals and forest together. The footage shows how Raute talk about their culture and lifeways of living with macaques sharing how in recent times the culture is at risk. This research is part of my PhD in the Department of Ecology and Conservation Biology at Texas A&M University. It looks at Raute–primate relations through multispecies ethnography, Indigenous studies and environmental humanities, and asks what Raute practices and ethics can teach us about how humans and animals share landscapes, and how that relationship is changing as forests, roads, farms and state policies transform the region. The Raute appear in this video with their consent. Their knowledge, voices and ways of life belong to them. Please watch and comment with respect. Acknowledgements I am deeply grateful to: Dr. Amanda Stronza, my advisor, for her guidance and support Otshabile Bahetoleng Lal Bahadur Khatri The Raute community, for welcoming me and sharing their lives, stories and knowledge The farmers and everyone else who assisted with this research Researcher: Amir Poudel, PhD Student, Department of Ecosystem Science and Management, Texas A&M University Contact: amirpoudel@gmail.com #Raute #Nepal #Anthropology #Ethnography #IndigenousPeoples #Primates #Macaques #Langurs #Karnali #TexasAM #MultispeciesEthnography #Fieldwork