Pastoral Genocide: An Evaluation of Adhikari’s Arguments

Mohamed Adhikari makes the case that settlers practicing pastoral farming had a unique predisposition to commit genocide on indigenous populations – specifically, indigenous hunter-gatherer populations. For the purpose of this essay, the settlers in question will be referring only to European colonial settlers. Adhikari’s definition of genocide will be used to assess his case: “The …

Cattle Histories and its Importance to the Discipline

Animal histories has become an energetic field, with a variety of academics exploring the role of animals in history and the proper ways in which animals should be treated as an historical topic. This paper, specifically, focuses on the role and nature of cattle in history, but utilises the broader spectrum of animal histories to …