Africa and the Cattle Without History

IF 0.3 Q4 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Global Environment Pub Date : 2024-01-09 DOI:10.3828/whp.ge.63834608440709

Tad Brown

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Abstract

African historiography of tsetse-borne trypanosomiasis has yet to fully embrace the genetic basis of cattle tolerance to the disease due to the literature’s emphasis on human illness and landscape modification. By the early 1980s, empirical research indicated that N’Dama cattle possessed a heritable tolerance to trypanosomiasis that could be strengthened through breeding. The Gambia’s first president, who was a former veterinary surgeon, contributed to the breed’s reappraisal. In exploring this history, I show how an international scientific network positioned The Gambia as a supplier of N’Dama breeding stock for livestock developments in sub-Saharan Africa. My argument is that research on cattle genetics has theoretical consequences for writing about the history of African tsetse ecosystems.

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非洲和没有历史的牛

非洲关于采采蝇传播的锥虫病的史料尚未完全包括牛对该疾病耐受性的遗传基础，因为文献强调的是人类疾病和地貌改变。到 20 世纪 80 年代初，实证研究表明，恩达马牛对锥虫病具有遗传耐受性，可以通过育种得到加强。冈比亚的第一任总统曾是一名兽医，他为该品种的重新评价做出了贡献。在探索这段历史的过程中，我展示了一个国际科学网络是如何将冈比亚定位为撒哈拉以南非洲畜牧业发展的恩达玛种牛供应商的。我的论点是，牛遗传学研究对非洲采采蝇生态系统历史的写作具有理论意义。

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Global Environment ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES-

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0.50

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25.00%

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期刊介绍： The half-yearly journal Global Environment: A Journal of History and Natural and Social Sciences acts as a forum and echo chamber for ongoing studies on the environment and world history, with special focus on modern and contemporary topics. Our intent is to gather and stimulate scholarship that, despite a diversity of approaches and themes, shares an environmental perspective on world history in its various facets, including economic development, social relations, production government, and international relations. One of the journal’s main commitments is to bring together different areas of expertise in both the natural and the social sciences to facilitate a common language and a common perspective in the study of history. This commitment is fulfilled by way of peer-reviewed research articles and also by interviews and other special features. Global Environment strives to transcend the western-centric and ‘developist’ bias that has dominated international environmental historiography so far and to favour the emergence of spatially and culturally diversified points of view. It seeks to replace the notion of ‘hierarchy’ with those of ‘relationship’ and ‘exchange’ – between continents, states, regions, cities, central zones and peripheral areas – in studying the construction or destruction of environments and ecosystems.