The Great Bophuthatswana Donkey Massacre: Discourse on the Ass and the Politics of Class and Grass

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The Great Bophuthatswana Donkey Massacre: Discourse on the Ass and the Politics of Class and Grass Get access Nancy J. Jacobs Nancy J. Jacobs Nancy J. Jacobs is an assistant professor of African History in the History Department and Afro-American Studies Program at Brown University. Her previous articles have been published in the Journal of African History, the Journal of Southern African Studies, and Environment and History. The donkey killing is the final episode in her book, Eyes on the Thornveld: A Socio Environmental History of the Kalahari's Edge, forthcoming from Cambridge University Press. Jacobs received her PhD in history from Indiana University in 1995, where her major adviser was Phyllis Martin. She is now beginning research on African and European knowledge about and interest in birds in colonial and postcolonial southern Africa. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 106, Issue 2, April 2001, Pages 485–507, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/106.2.485 Published: 01 April 2001