2014
194 pp.
Text languages: German, English
Africa is popularly considered as a continent of animals. Whether on safaris, in fables or in zoos: everywhere spaces were imagined and constructed as African spaces. The surveying and mapping of Africa on the basis of its animals was a global phenomenon. Travels, colonialism and international trade disseminated narratives africanized animals all over the world and contributed to their popularity. These images continue to shape the external as well as the internal perception of the continent and the dealing with its animals.
The present volume questions the relation of African spaces and African animals drawing on current research on the history of the 19th and 20th century. For this purpose it combines approaches of global and colonial history, literary studies and cultural anthropology with concepts of the field of Human-Animal Studies. It demonstrates how African animal spaces are imagined and constructed in Africa as well as on a transcontinental level.
CONTENTS
Winfried Speitkamp / Stephanie Zehnle: Afrikanische Tierräume – Einleitung
Manuela Kirberg: Repräsentationen von Tier-Mensch-Raum in ostafrikanischen Oraturen
Felix Schürmann: Die Wale, ihre Jäger und der Strand von Annobón
Florian Kerschbaumer: Menschenschlinger, Jonasfisch, Kapitalist – Die Rolle des Haies im transatlantischen Sklavenhandel aus Sicht deutschsprachiger Quellen des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts
Stephanie Zehnle: Leoparden, Leopardenmänner – Grenzüberschreitungen in Raum und Spezies
Sandra Swart: Lucas’s Story – The Invention of the South African Baboon Boy
Ulrike Kirchberger: Imagined Spaces? Maßnahmen zum Wildschutz in Deutsch-Ostafrika, 1890–1914
Luregn Lenggenhager: Naturraum erschaffen – Tiere, Karten und Räume im Nordosten Namibias
Christina May: Künstliche Savannen – Afrikanisch thematisierte Landschaften in zoologischen Gärten seit 1900
Johann Reißer: Hagenbeck in Kafkas Manege – Vom Mensch-, Tier- und Text-Werden in Schau- und Erzählräumen der deutschen Kolonialzeit
Verzeichnis der Autorinnen und Autoren
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