The Romance of a New South African Farm1

Flemming, Leonard

doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a100311

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“…60 The nature of horses' ''cultures'' varied geographically, depending on acquired knowledge of local conditions: for example, ''In the Free State if a horse [saw] a tree it shie[d] at it.'' 61 The second difference in the history narrated by horses would be the chronological and temporal structuring. The human horological obsession provides no template for how horses structure time.…”

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“The World the Horses Made”: A South African Case Study of Writing Animals into Social History

Swart

2010

Int Rev of Soc His

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SUMMARY: This paper explores new ways to write history that engages with the lives of animals. It offers a sample card of how social history can be enriched by focusing on history from an animal perspective -and equally, how the tools provided by social history reveals the historicity of animals. The case study is drawn from South African history and the focus is on horses. The paper firstly proposes that horses changed human history not only on the macro-level, but in the small, intimate arena of the bodily, following Febvre's call for a sensory history. Secondly, this paper explores social history's long-time concern with agency and with understanding socio-cultural experiences from the perspective of those who actually lived them -in this case, from an equine perspective. Thirdly, the paper asks how social history that takes animals seriously might be written and might offer a fresh dimension to our understanding, with examples from the most analysed event in southern African historiography, the South African War (1899)(1900)(1901)(1902).

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confidence: 99%