Sandra Swart discusses "The Lion’s Historian: Africa’s Animal Past"
Sandra Swart, Professor and Chair of the Department of History at Stellenbosch University, South Africa, will discuss her book The Lion’s Historian: Africa’s Animal Past (Jacana Media, 2023) in the Greenhouse book talk series on Monday, 11 November 2024 at 16:00 CET in Norway / 17:00 SAST in South Africa.
Zoom link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86461106548?pwd=c8LbbNbsmOvfegipMpFGwEncnaT0Xn.1
The animals in this landmark book – elephants, hippos, okapi, lions, jackals, cows, sheep, horses, white ants, quagga, Nazi cattle, police dogs and baboons – are chosen strategically to highlight different facets of our shared past. With this animal-centric lens, decades of research are brought together in an astonishing book, one that takes animals seriously.
The possibility of our shared future pivots on a reckoning with our shared pasts. This pioneering work shows what human-animal history can do, not only to help us better understand our place in the world, but to make our world – however slightly – a better place.