Today’s activities of elephant hunting and elephant tourism not only draw from distinct philosophies but also connect to divergent political agendas for the scientific and technical management of contemporary wild elephant populations. Whereas trophy hunting evidences more of an ethic of domination, tourism works through an ethic of appropriation—terms about which I shall have much more to say. This chapter looks at the cultural and ethical frameworks within which elephant trophy hunting and elephant touring have developed. The two activities also share some attributes, including their history of having become global industries during the era of colonial encounters and their propensity to make an abstraction of elephants as symbols of power, wildness, or wealth. Such attitudes now circulate beyond geographical boundaries, creating new political and practical challenges to the protection of elephants from ever-expanding and intensifying capitalist processes of consumption.