UID:
almahu_9949703220502882
Format:
1 online resource.
ISBN:
9789047422808
Series Statement:
Brill eBook titles 2008
Content:
This suite of essays is a first for historical writing about southern Africa: they recover an animal's ubiquitous, yet hidden presence in human history. The authors have used the dog as a way "to think about human society". The dog is the connecting thread binding these essays, which each reveals a different part of the complex social history of southern Africa. The essays range widely from concerns over disease, bestiality, and social degradation through greyhound gambling, to anxieties over social status reflected through breed classifications, to social rebellion through resistance to the dog tax imposed by colonial authorities. With its focus on dogs in human history, this project is part of what has been termed the 'animal turn' in the social sciences, which investigates the spaces which animals inhabit in human society and the way in which animal and human lives interconnect.
Note:
Preliminary material /
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Canis familiaris: A dog history of Southern Africa --
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Africanis: The pre-colonial dog of Africa /
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A short paper about a dog /
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What the dogs knew: Intelligence and morality in the Cape Colony /
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Dogs and the public sphere: The ordering of social space in early nineteenth-century Cape Town /
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Class and canicide in little Bess: The 1893 Port Elizabeth rabies epidemic /
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Dogs, poison and the meaning of colonial intervention in the Transkei,South Africa /
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Fido: Dog tales of colonialism in Namibia /
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Police dogs and state rationality in early twentieth-century South Africa /
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'Gone to the dogs': The Cultural Politics Of gambling- The rise and fall of british greyhound racing on the Witwatersrand, 1932-1949 /
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Social subjects: Representations of dogs in South African fiction in english /
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The canine metaphor in the visual arts /
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Dogs and dogma: A discussion of the socio-political construction of southern african dog 'breeds' as a window onto social history /
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Index /
Additional Edition:
Canis africanis ISBN 9789004154193 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9004154191 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Language:
English
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