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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2008.
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| Colección: | Human-animal studies ;
v. 5. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- List of Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Canis Familiaris: A Dog History of Southern Africa (Lance van Sittert and Sandra Swart); Africanis: The Pre-Colonial Dog of Africa (Tim Maggs and Judith Sealy); A Short Paper about a Dog (Susie Newton-King); What the Dogs Knew: Intelligence and Morality in the Cape Colony (Elizabeth Green Musselman); Dogs and the Public Sphere: The Ordering of Social Space in Early Nineteenth-Century Cape Town (Kirsten McKenzie); Class and Canicide in Little Bess: The 1893 Port Elizabeth Rabies Epidemic (Lance van Sittert).