Guest Talk Prof Katharina Schramm
Race, Species, Knowledge: Approaching Coloniality through Karakul Sheep
19.04.2021
19 APRIL 2021, 18.15, Zoom-Meeting
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Oettingenstraße 67
80538 München
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Prof. Dr. Katharina Schramm (Universität Bayreuth):
Race, Species, Knowledge: Approaching Coloniality through
Karakul Sheep
Bred on an experimental farm in Halle (Germany) in the early 1900s, Karakul sheep were exported to the colony of South-West Africa, where they played a major role in colonial settlement and economies. They were also crucial agents in scientific controversies on agriculture, Mendelian genetics and race. In my talk, I will consider the ways in which the Karakul economy marked and transgressed boundaries of race and species in multiple ways. I will discuss how the sheep connect German colonialism, South African imperial rule, colonial revisionism in Nazi Germany as well as heritage debates in independent Namibia. I will link this historical narrative to a methodological reflection on ethnography as decolonial practice
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