Dogs, Poison and the Meaning of Colonial Intervention in the Transkei, South Africa
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8977473 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jacob Tropp (Middlebury College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 451-472 |
| Publication date | 2002-11-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of African History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8537 • E-ISSN: 1469-5138 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0021853702008186 |
| OpenAlex | W2127604429 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 15 |
In the 1890s and 1900s in the Transkei, South Africa, colonial relations were severely strained as Cape colonial officials attempted to constrain African men's hunting activities by systematically poisoning and shooting their dogs. For colonial foresters, such efforts were part of a larger strategy to ‘protect’ flora and fauna by controlling African environmental activities and mobility more thoroughly. Yet on the ground in many areas, state-sponsored dog-killing was drawn into more complex understandings of, and popular frustrations with, transformations in local landscapes and livelihoods during this period. As rural men and women responded to the particular changes in their local political ecologies arising from colonial wildlife preservation policies, they also located conflicts over state forestry and its policies of exclusion within broader popular experiences of political, economic and ecological subordination. In several communities, rumors and stories proliferated, connecting the killing of dogs to other official attempts to poison and bewitch Africans, their animals and their landscapes. Such stories were ways for people to express deeper concerns over the spreading influence of colonial power in their daily practices and its toll on local communities’ health and welfare
Agriculture · Archaeology · Colonialism · Development economics · Ethnology · Geography · Intervention (counseling · Livelihood · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Sociology · State (computer science · Wildlife · African history and culture studies · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies · Ecology · History · Law · South African History and Culture
The Sovereign Poison
Notes on the Origin of 'the Chase
The Worlds of European and South Asian Poisoncraft
What Drives Illegal Hunting with Dogs? Traditional Practice in Contemporary South Africa
Latitudes and Longitudes
Black Death, White Writing
A Dog-Eat-Dog Empire
Tracking in Game Trails
Class and Canicide in Little Bess
Canis Familiaris
Routinising genocide
Animals, prey, and enemies
Beasts of Burden
Cães e preconceito na África do Sul
Carnivores, Colonization, and Conflict
| Citations per year | 0.65 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2003 - 2026 (24) |
| Highly cited | No |