Canis africanis : a dog history of Southern Africa /
The role of the dog in human society is the connecting thread that binds the essays in Canis Africanis, each revealing a different part of the complex social history of southern Africa. The essays range widely from concerns over disease, bestiality, and social degradation through gambling on dogs to...
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| Other Authors: | , |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2008
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| Series: | Human-animal studies ;
v. 5. |
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | The role of the dog in human society is the connecting thread that binds the essays in Canis Africanis, each revealing a different part of the complex social history of southern Africa. The essays range widely from concerns over disease, bestiality, and social degradation through gambling on dogs to anxieties over social status reflected through breed classifications, and social rebellion through resisting 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, demonstrating how different human groups construct a range of identities for themselves (and for others) in terms of animals. So instead of conceiving of animals as merely constituents of ecological or agricultural systems, they can be comprehended through their role in human cultures. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 295 pages) : illustrations, map |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789047422808 9047422805 1281917443 9781281917447 9786611917449 6611917446 |
| Language: | English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
