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Schaumann, Eleanor:
Saving sheep : On extinction narratives in Namibian Swakara farming.
In: Cambridge Prisms : Extinction.
Vol. 2
(2024)
.
- e1.
ISSN 2755-0958
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/ext.2024.2
Project information
| Project title: |
Project's official title Project's id Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence at the University of Bayreuth EXC 2052/1 – 390713894 |
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| Project financing: |
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft |
Abstract in another language
The Namibian Swakara industry, a type of sheep farming focused on the production of lamb pelts for the fashion industry, currently faces a crisis situation. Formerly one of the most important export products from Namibia, a combination of drought, falling pelt prices and the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic now threaten the survival of Swakara, the Namibian Karakul. The current crisis is articulated in extinction narratives. The potential end of Swakara farming as a way of life and a set of knowledge practices is narratively interwoven with the potential disappearance of Swakara from the Namibian landscape. Extinction narratives in the context of Swakara farming in Namibia blur the lines of human and nonhuman ways of life and their disappearance.
Further data
| Item Type: | Article in a journal |
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| Refereed: | Yes |
| Keywords: | Agriculture; Colonization; Death; Drought; Extinction |
| Institutions of the University: | Faculties > Faculty of Cultural Studies > Chair Social Anthropology > Chair Social Anthropology - Univ.-Prof. Dr. Erdmute Alber Faculties Faculties > Faculty of Cultural Studies Faculties > Faculty of Cultural Studies > Chair Social Anthropology |
| Result of work at the UBT: | Yes |
| DDC Subjects: | 300 Social sciences > 300 Social sciences, sociology and anthropology |
| Date Deposited: | 15 Feb 2025 22:01 |
| Last Modified: | 17 Feb 2025 08:30 |
| URI: | https://eref.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/92399 |