Fido: Dog Tales of Colonialism in Namibia

Human-Animal Studies

Volumn 5, Issue , 2008, Pages 173-192

  Gordon, Robert J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

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EID: 84966573870     PISSN: 15734226     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1163/ej.9789004154193.i-300.38     Document Type: Review

References (50)

1. My thanks to Patricia Hayes, Udo Krautwurst, Jane Katjavivi, Werner Hillebrecht and Dag Henrichsen for advice, comments and obscure references. Hans Botma provided useful advice on legal aspects.
2. S. Baker, Picturing the Beast (Manchester, 1993), 87.
3. A. Gottlieb, 'Dog: ally or traitor? Mythology, cosmology, and society among the Beng of Ivory Coast', American Ethnologist, 13(1968), 447-88.
4. E. Copet-Rougier, 'Le Jeu de l'entre-deux. Le chien chez les Mkako (Est-Cameroun), L'Homme, 28 (1988), 108-21.
5. R. Ellen, 'Categories of animality and canine abuse', Anthropos, 94 (1999), 57-68.
6. M. Mullin, 'Mirrors and windows: sociocultural studies of humananimal relationships', Annual Review of Anthropology, 28 (1999), 201-24.
7. Clearly a close examination of these dog proverbs would provide an important indication of the role and value of dogs in northern Namibia.
8. M. Kuusi, Ovambo Proverbs (Helsinki, 1970).
9. J.L. and J. Comaroff, Of Revelation and Revolution, vol. 2 (Chicago, 1997), 29.
10. F. Galton, Narrative of an Explorer in Tropical Africa (London, 1889)
11. C. Andersson, Lake Ngami (London, 1856), 27.
12. Galton, Narrative, 148 and Andersson, Lake Ngami, 228.
13. Andersson, Lake Ngami, 99, 278.
14. Andersson, Lake Ngami, 278, 230 and C. Andersson, Notes of Travel in South Africa (London, 1875), 280.
15. Deutsches Kolonial Lexikon (1920). The standard reference here would be H. Schneider, Animal Health and Veterinary Medicine in Namibia (Windhoek, 1994).
16. National Archives of Namibia (NAN), 'Reminiscences of William Chapman' (n.d.) mimeo and P. Moller, Journey Through Angola, Ovampoland and Damaraland (Cape Town, 1974), 135. And like his compatriot, Andersson, Moller also noted different dog breeds, 125, 84.
17. L. Wildenthal, 'Race, gender and citizenship in the German Colonial Empire' in F. Cooper and A. Stoler (eds.), Tensions of Empire (Berkeley, 1997), 275.
18. S. Passarge, 'Das Okavangosump-ussland und seine bewohner', Zeitschrift für Ethnologie, 5 (1905), 649-716.
19. J. J. Varner, Dogs of the Conquest (Norman, 1983)
20. M. Schwartz, A History of Dogs in the Early Americas (New Haven, 1997).
21. Deutsche Suedwest-Afrika Zeitung, 28 November 1911
22. H. Rafalski, Von Niemandsland bis Ordnungsstaat (Berlin, 1930).
23. K. Shear, 'Police dogs and state rationality in early twentieth-century South Africa' in this volume. 15 The 'smouspincher' was apparently a cross between a Doberman Pincher and a Rottweiler. NAN, A491/1.
24. G. Lewis, 'The Bondelswarts rebellion' (MA thesis, Rhodes University 1977), 49 25
25. R. Freislich, The Last Tribal War (Cape Town, 1964), 89.
26. Union of South Africa, (UG 16/1923), 11.
27. Windhoek Advertiser, 18 Aug. 1923.
28. P. Hayes et al. (eds.), Namibia under South African Rule (Athens OH, 1998), 51-76.
29. Windhoek Advertiser, 20 April 1921.
30. On South African vermin hunt clubs see W. Beinart, 'The night of the jackal: sheep, pastures and predators in the Cape'.
31. E. Leach, 'Anthropological aspects of language: animal categories and verbal abuse' in E. Lenneberg (ed.), New Directions in the Study of Language (Boston, 1964), 322-42.
32. A. Memmi, The Colonizer and the Colonized (Boston, 1964).
33. Galton's cousin, Charles Darwin was imposing accepted bourgeois values when he compared Fuegians to dogs in precisely these colonialist terms in The Descent of Man.
34. L.M. Wendt, Dogs: A Historical Journey (New York, 1996), 130.
35. Another important animal which straddles this boundary, Dag Henrichsen points out, is the horse. In contrast to wild dogs, in Namibia the 'wild horses of the Namib' are highly romanticised.
36. G. Gibson et al. (eds.), The Kavango Peoples (Wiesbaden, 1981), 45.
37. J. Serpell, In the Company of Animals (Oxford, 1986)
38. M. Garber, Dog Love (London, 1996), 16.
39. P. Weidner, The World Owes You Nothing (Warmbad, n.d.), 29.
40. C.H. Blaine, Dog Law: A Compilation of the Law in South Africa relating to Dogs ( Johannesburg, 1928), 51-2.
41. Standard Encyclopedia of South Africa, vol. 2 (Cape Town, 1968), 55.
42. Andersson, Lake Ngami, 278).
43. A. Fischer, 'Ueber den jagdhund in Suedwest', SWA Jagkalender (1939), 163-4
44. H. Graf Castell-Ruedenhausen, Jagden zwischen Namib und Kalahari (Hamburg, 1978), 160-1.
45. Castell Ruedenhausen, Jagden, 149.
46. D. Lessing, African Stories (New York, 1966), 657.
47. Blaine, Dog Law, 227.
48. Blaine, Dog Law, 50-1, 55.
49. H. Tonjes, Ovamboland: Country People Mission (Windhoek, 1996), 149, 111.
50. Personal comm., Dag Henrichsen.