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Canis Africanis - A Dog History of Southern Africa (Paperback)
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Canis Africanis - A Dog History of Southern Africa (Paperback)
Series: Human-Animal Studies, 5
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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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