Colonizing elephants: animal agency, undead capital and imperial science in British Burma

Colonizing elephants: animal agency, undead capital and imperial science in British Burma
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殖民大象:英属缅甸的动物机构、不死资本和帝国科学

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10.1017/bjt.2017.6
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2017
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SAHA J
SAHA J
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大象是帝国的重要代理人。在英属缅甸,他们独特的能力使他们成为殖民地蓬勃发展的柚木行业的关键工人。他们的劳动是对该国广袤森林的商业开发不可或缺的一部分。他们帮助砍伐树木,运输原木,并将木材装载到船上。由于它们的实用性,捕获和照顾它们对木材公司来说是极其重要的。大象成为了一种特殊的资本形式,需要特殊的专业知识。为了满足这种对知识的需求,帝国研究人员通过研究缅甸丛林营地和木材厂中工作的大象,加深了他们对亚洲象的科学理解。由此产生的知识取决于应征入伍和受限制的工作大象的机构,并受到殖民统治的不对称权力关系的制约。
Elephants were vital agents of empire. In British Burma their unique abilities made them essential workers in the colony’s booming teak industry. Their labour was integral to the commercial exploitation of the country’s vast forests. They helped to fell the trees, transport the logs and load the timber onto ships. As a result of their utility, capturing and caring for them was of utmost importance to timber firms. Elephants became a peculiar form of capital that required particular expertise. To address this need for knowledge, imperial researchers deepened their scientific understanding of the Asian elephant by studying working elephants in Burma’s jungle camps and timber yards. The resulting knowledge was contingent upon the conscripted and constrained agency of working elephants, and was conditioned by the asymmetrical power relationships of colonial rule.
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