Browsing Journals by Subject "Cattle"
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Bakgomong: The Babirwa’s transboundary pastoralist identity and social change in late 19th century Botswana
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2016)To follow is a critical narrative on the intersection between identity production and transformations in the indigenous herding systems of the Babirwa of pre-colonial Botswana. The production of the Babirwa’s ... -
White man’s disease, black man’s peril?: Rinderpest and famine in the eastern Bechuanaland Protectorate at the end of the 19th century.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2014)During the late nineteenth century, a pandemic of Rinderpest exterminated large numbers of cattle in Southern Africa. Although in the Bechuanaland Protectorate the disease killed cattle only for two years between 1896 ...