Among the Beasts of Burma: Animals and the Politics of Colonial Sensibilities, c. 1840-1940
Among the Beasts of Burma: Animals and the Politics of Colonial Sensibilities, c. 1840-1940
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在缅甸的野兽中：动物和殖民情感的政治，c。
DOI：
10.1093/jsh/shv003
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发表时间：
2015
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0.8
通讯作者：
Saha J
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作者：
Saha J
根据帝国的著作，缅甸人在身体上和情感上都与动物过于亲近。有人声称，一些缅甸人与动物有着天生的联系，特别是大象驾驶员与他们的大象。英国作家也对他们认为与动物的不恰当互动感到好奇但厌恶，他们讲述了女性母乳喂养非人类哺乳动物孤儿的虚构故事。但是，尽管有这些对人与动物关系的负面描述，皇家文本也暴露了作者自己与动物的物质和情感联系。他们对宠物的崇拜和对害虫的忍受都使他们扎根于殖民地。本文运用动物史、感觉史、后殖民理论和历史地理学的观点，探讨了这些与动物的遭遇是如何在殖民话语中被调解的。我认为，揭示这些迄今被忽视的情感殖民与动物的关系是必要的背景下的历史，主要集中在科学和官僚帝国的表现自然的出现。
According to imperial writings, the Burmese were too close to animals, both physically and emotionally. It was claimed that some Burmese people had innate connections to animals, notably elephant-drivers with their elephants. British writers were also intrigued but disgusted by what they deemed to be inappropriate interactions with animals, recounting apocryphal tales of women breastfeeding orphaned non-human mammals. But despite these negative portrayals of human-animal relations, imperial texts also betray their authors' own material and sentimental ties to animals. Their adoration of their pets and their sufferance of pests both served to embed them in the colony. Using insights drawn from animal history, sensory history, postcolonial theory and historical geography, this article explores how these felt encounters with animals were mediated in colonial discourse. I argue that uncovering these hitherto overlooked affective colonial relationships with animals is necessary to contextualize histories that have primarily focused on the emergence of scientific and bureaucratic imperial representations of nature.