Cattle Colonialism

Author : John Ryan Fischer
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469625133

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Cattle Colonialism by John Ryan Fischer Pdf

In the nineteenth century, the colonial territories of California and Hawai'i underwent important cultural, economic, and ecological transformations influenced by an unlikely factor: cows. The creation of native cattle cultures, represented by the Indian vaquero and the Hawaiian paniolo, demonstrates that California Indians and native Hawaiians adapted in ways that allowed them to harvest the opportunities for wealth that these unfamiliar biological resources presented. But the imposition of new property laws limited these indigenous responses, and Pacific cattle frontiers ultimately became the driving force behind Euro-American political and commercial domination, under which native residents lost land and sovereignty and faced demographic collapse. Environmental historians have too often overlooked California and Hawai'i, despite the roles the regions played in the colonial ranching frontiers of the Pacific World. In Cattle Colonialism, John Ryan Fischer significantly enlarges the scope of the American West by examining the trans-Pacific transformations these animals wrought on local landscapes and native economies.

Author : Peter Rigby
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0877229546

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Cattle, Capitalism, and Class by Peter Rigby Pdf

Focusing on the Ilparakuyo Maasai of Kenya and Tanzania, Peter Rigby discusses why third world development policies with regard to pastoral societies are inappropriate and likely to fail. A political economy of development, Rigby maintains, must incorporate historical, cultural, linguistic, and even aesthetic dimensions of the peoples involved. Using ethnography and other research materials, and basing his understanding on his years of living with the people he writes about, the author illuminates the culture and explores the prospects for a distinct section of pastoral Maasai--the Ilparakuyo. In addition, he attempts to develop a historical materialist theory of language in relation to a specific East African culture. While rural development is a priority in many recently independent third world countries, it is often not designed for the benefit of the producer. Rigby analyzes the language and customs of the Maasai to chronicle the changes forces upon them by both colonial and post-colonial governments, and the complexity of their responses to these challenges. The cultures, languages, and aspirations of such pastoral societies are often overlooked by development planners. Rigby describes how government expectations should be based on an understanding and respect of such social conditions. Author note: Peter Rigby is Professor of Anthropology at Temple University.

Author : Kathryn Cornell Dolan
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781496227010

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Cattle Country by Kathryn Cornell Dolan Pdf

As beef and cattle production progressed in nineteenth-century America, the cow emerged as the nation’s representative food animal and earned a culturally prominent role in the literature of the day. In Cattle Country Kathryn Cornell Dolan examines the role cattle played in narratives throughout the century to show how the struggles within U.S. food culture mapped onto society’s broader struggles with colonization, environmentalism, U.S. identity, ethnicity, and industrialization. Dolan examines diverse texts from Native American, African American, Mexican American, and white authors that showcase the zeitgeist of anxiety surrounding U.S. identity as cattle gradually became an industrialized food source, altering the country’s culture while exacting a high cost to humans, animals, and the land. From Henry David Thoreau’s descriptions of indigenous cuisines as a challenge to the rising monoculture, to Washington Irving’s travel narratives that foreshadow cattle replacing American bison in the West, to María Amparo Ruiz de Burton’s use of cattle to connect race and imperialism in her work, authors’ preoccupations with cattle underscored their concern for resource depletion, habitat destruction, and the wasteful overproduction of a single breed of livestock. Cattle Country offers a window into the ways authors worked to negotiate the consequences of the development of this food culture and, by excavating the history of U.S. settler colonialism through the figure of cattle, sheds new ecocritical light on nineteenth-century literature.

Author : Andrew Sluyter
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0742515605

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Colonialism and Landscape by Andrew Sluyter Pdf

Spurred by the dramatic landscape transformation associated with European colonization of the Americas, this work creates a prototype theory to explain relationships between colonialism and landscape.

Author : Sean Hawkins,Associate Professor of History Sean Hawkins
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0802048722

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Writing and Colonialism in Northern Ghana by Sean Hawkins,Associate Professor of History Sean Hawkins Pdf

Drawing on the work of a variety of other fields and disciplines - from the ancient Mediterranean to colonial Spain, and from anthropology to psychology - the author argues that colonialism in Africa needs to be understood through the medium of writing.

Author : Poonam Bala
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781317318224

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Medicine and Colonialism by Poonam Bala Pdf

Focusing on India and South Africa during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the essays in this collection address power and enforced modernity as applied to medicine. Clashes between traditional methods of healing and the practices brought in by colonizers are explored across both territories.

Author : Velayutham Saravanan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000923247

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Colonialism and Wildlife by Velayutham Saravanan Pdf

This book delves into the history of the commercialization of wildlife in India. It examines the colonial strategies that were employed in the commodification of wildlife resources specifically for lucrative domestic and international trade during the early nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. It looks at how and why the colonial administration paid special emphasis on hunting and game sports which largely contributed to commodity capitalism in the form of taxidermy and wildlife exports. The author also critically analyses the wildlife laws and regulations promulgated by the colonial administration, such as the elephant protection act, birds and fisheries act, the forest acts, and studies how they have systematically brought wildlife under state control with a commercial motive. An important contribution to the environmental history of India, this book is an essential interdisciplinary resource for scholars and researchers of history, colonialism, wildlife studies, economic history, ecological studies, environmental history, Indian history, South Asian studies, and development studies.

Author : George O. Ndege
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Cattle
ISBN : STANFORD:36105035238190

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The Impact of Colonialism on the Cattle Economy of Rongo Division, South Nyanza District, 1900-1960 by George O. Ndege Pdf

Author : Jennifer Cole
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2001-11-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520228467

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Forget Colonialism? by Jennifer Cole Pdf

"The best book-length study of colonial memory available... Cole provides a way out of the dichotomy in which memory is viewed as either individual or 'collective.'"—Rosalind Shaw, coeditor of Syncretism/Anti-Syncretism: The Politics of Religious Synthesis "A remarkably lucid and self-assured analysis of social memory. . . The book is a pleasure to read."—Michael Lambek, author of Knowledge and Practice in Mayotte

Author : Kelly Struthers Montford,Chloë Taylor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000046984

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Colonialism and Animality by Kelly Struthers Montford,Chloë Taylor Pdf

The fields of settler colonial, decolonial, and postcolonial studies, as well as Critical Animal Studies are growing rapidly, but how do the implications of these endeavours intersect? Colonialism and Animality: Anti-Colonial Perspectives in Critical Animal Studies explores some of the ways that the oppression of Indigenous persons and more-than-human animals are interconnected. Composed of 12 chapters by an international team of specialists plus a Foreword by Dinesh Wadiwel, the book is divided into four themes: Tensions and Alliances between Animal and Decolonial Activisms Revisiting the Stereotypes of Indigenous Peoples’ Relationships with Animals Cultural Perspectives Colonialism, Animals, and the Law This book will be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students, activists, as well as postdoctoral scholars, working in the areas of Critical Animal Studies, Native Studies, postcolonial and critical race studies, with particular chapters being of interest to scholars and students in other fields, such as Cultural Studies, Animal Law and Critical Criminology.

Author : Laxman D. Satya
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015060114207

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Ecology, Colonialism, and Cattle by Laxman D. Satya Pdf

This volume documents the impact that colonial commercialization had on the environment in a cattle rich region of central India called Berar when the traditional interdependency of agriculture, grazing lands and forest was broken under British colonial onslaught.

Author : Lorena Rizzo
Publisher : BASLER AFRIKA BIBLIOGRAPHIEN
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9783905758276

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Gender and Colonialism by Lorena Rizzo Pdf

Deals with colonialism in a Namibian periphery and considers both the German colonial period as well as South African rule in the country. The main is to develop an understanding of the dynamics and vectors of change in the Kaoko's African societies gradually being placed under colonial rule. With a focus on socio-economic processes the thesis explores the continuous reconstitution of gender roles and relations and anchors its argument on an integrated analysis of archival written and visual sources as well as on oral knowledge.

Author : Rana P. Behal,Marcel van der Linden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521699746

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Coolies, Capital and Colonialism by Rana P. Behal,Marcel van der Linden Pdf

Endogamy, the custom forbidding marriage outside one's social class, is central to social history. This study considers the factors determining who married whom, whether partner selection changed over the past three hundred years and regional differences between Europe and South America.

Author : Pedro Paulo A. Funari,Maria Ximena Senatore
Publisher : Springer
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319080697

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Archaeology of Culture Contact and Colonialism in Spanish and Portuguese America by Pedro Paulo A. Funari,Maria Ximena Senatore Pdf

The volume contributes to disrupt the old grand narrative of cultural contact and colonialism in Spanish and Portuguese America in a wide and complete sense. This edited volume aims at exploring contact archaeology in the modern era. Archaeology has been exploring the interaction of peoples and cultures from early times, but only in the last few decades have cultural contact and material world been recognized as crucial elements to understanding colonialism and the emergence of modernity. Modern colonialism studies pose questions in need of broader answers. This volume explores these answers in Spanish and Portuguese America, comprising present-day Latin America and formerly Spanish territories now part of the United States. The volume addresses studies of the particular features of Spanish-Portuguese colonialism, as well as the specificities of Iberian colonization, including hybridism, religious novelties, medieval and modern social features, all mixed in a variety of ways unique and so different from other areas, particularly the Anglo-Saxon colonial thrust. Cultural contact studies offer a particularly in-depth picture of the uniqueness of Latin America in terms of its cultural mixture. This volume particularly highlights local histories, revealing novelty, diversity, and creativity in the conformation of the new colonial realities, as well as presenting Latin America as a multicultural arena, with astonishing heterogeneity in thoughts, experiences, practices, and, material worlds.

Author : Rachael Gilmour
Publisher : Springer
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2006-10-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780230286856

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Grammars of Colonialism by Rachael Gilmour Pdf

The study of languages was crucial to colonial power in 18th and 19th-century South Africa. This important book examines representations of the South African Bantu languages Xhosa and Zulu, revealing the ways in which colonial linguistics contributed to both the making of the colonial order and to instabilities at the heart of the project.