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American cows in Antarctica: Richard Byrd's polar dairy as symbolic settler colonialism
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Leane, E and Nielsen, HEF, American cows in Antarctica: Richard Byrd's polar dairy as symbolic settler colonialism, Journal of Colonialism & Colonial History, 18, (2) pp. 1-13. ISSN 1532-5768 (2017) [Refereed Article]
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DOI: doi:10.1353/cch.2017.0024
Abstract
Few people are aware that dairy cows form part of Antarctic exploration history. Richard Byrd's second expedition of 1933–35 took with it three Guernseys, ostensibly to provide milk for the men. We outline the cows' Antarctica experience, discussing the way in which their celebrity benefited the expedition and its sponsors. Contextualizing the episode within the cultural history of milk in the US, we suggest some lenses through which the Guernseys can be read. These cows, we argue, enabled Byrd to enact a form of symbolic settler colonialism on the Antarctic continent.
Item Details
| Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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| Keywords: | settler colonialism, Richard E. Byrd, Antarctica, cows, human-animal studies |
| Research Division: | History, Heritage and Archaeology |
| Research Group: | Historical studies |
| Research Field: | History of empires, imperialism and colonialism |
| Objective Division: | Culture and Society |
| Objective Group: | Understanding past societies |
| Objective Field: | Understanding the past of the Americas |
| UTAS Author: | Leane, E (Professor Elizabeth Leane) |
| UTAS Author: | Nielsen, HEF (Dr Hanne Nielsen) |
| ID Code: | 120527 |
| Year Published: | 2017 |
| Funding Support: | Australian Research Council (FT120100402) |
| Deposited By: | Office of the School of Humanities |
| Deposited On: | 2017-08-28 |
| Last Modified: | 2018-05-07 |
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