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ISBN: 1282192868 9786612192869 1443809268 9781847185143 1847185142 9781443809269 Year: 2008 Publisher: Newcastle, U.K. : Cambridge Scholars Pub.,
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Southern Africa's literatures brim with references to the natural world, its landscapes and its animals. Both fictional and non-fictional works express ongoing debates, often highly politicised, concerning its various groups' senses of identity and belon
Human ecology --- Ecology in literature --- South African literature --- Ecology --- Environment, Human --- Human beings --- Human environment --- Ecological engineering --- Human geography --- Nature --- History and criticism. --- Social aspects --- Effect of environment on --- Effect of human beings on
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ISBN: 1776142209 9781776142200 Year: 2018 Publisher: Johannesburg Wits University Press
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Elephants are in dire straits - again. They were virtually extirpated from much of Africa by European hunters in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, but their numbers resurged for a while in the heyday of late-colonial conservation efforts in the twentieth. Now, according to one estimate, an elephant is being killed every 15 minutes. This is at the same time that the reasons for being especially compassionate and protective towards elephants are now so well-known that they have become almost a cliché: their high intelligence, rich emotional lives including a capacity for mourning, caring matriarchal societal structures, that strangely charismatic grace. Saving elephants is one of the iconic conservation struggles of our time. As a society we must aspire to understand how and why people develop compassion - or fail to do so - and what stories we tell ourselves about animals that reveal the relationship between ourselves and animals. This book is the first study to probe the primary features, and possible effects, of some major literary genres as they pertain to elephants south of the Zambezi over three centuries: indigenous forms, early European travelogues, hunting accounts, novels, game ranger memoirs, scientists' accounts, and poems. It examines what these literatures imply about the various and diverse attitudes towards elephants, about who shows compassion towards them, in what ways and why. It is the story of a developing contestation between death and compassion, between those who kill and those who love and protect.
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ISBN: 1282795880 9786612795886 1861896158 Year: 2008 Publisher: London : Reaktion,
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Aristotle characterized the elephant as "the beast which passeth all others in wit and mind" and the animal has long figured in cultural artifacts, even on continents it has never inhabited. Now Elephant provides an engaging look at the elephant's long le
Elephants. --- Pachyderms. --- Pachydermata --- Ungulates --- Elephantidae --- Pachyderms --- Proboscidea (Mammals)
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