How does a big cat in India come to be identified as the one guilty of preying on humans? Indian conservationist law stipulates that the big cat must be identified before it is hunted down. But as I demonstrate ethnographically, there is no possible means of establishing the correct identity of a big cat before it is killed. Through an account of the impossibility of beastly identification, this article demonstrates the limits of both bureaucratic action and conservation in the government of big cats. What operates, instead, is a form of knowing the nonhuman Other, a knowing that is localized, personalized, affective, and momentary. Such forms of knowledge and living-besides are called for by the Anthropocene. Indeed, an analytic potential of the Anthropocene lies in rendering untenable the continual disciplinary sequestering of the nonhuman and environmental from the political, bureaucratic, and legal. [bureaucracy, nonhuman animals, conservation, identification, government, Anthropocene, India]

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印度的野兽识别

印度的一只大猫如何被认定为捕食人类的罪魁祸首？印度自然保护法规定，在猎杀大型猫科动物之前，必须对其进行鉴定。但正如我从人种学上证明的那样，没有在大猫被杀死之前确定其正确身份的可能方法。通过对野兽身份识别的不可能性的说明，本文展示了大型猫科动物政府中官僚行为和保护的局限性。相反，运作的是一种了解非人类他者的形式，一种本地化、个性化、情感化和瞬间的了解。人类世要求这种形式的知识和生活之外。事实上，人类世的分析潜力在于使非人类和环境与政治、官僚和法律的持续纪律隔离变得站不住脚。[官僚主义、非人类动物、保护、鉴定、政府、人类世、印度]