Article ID: CBB819110793

A Horse-Cloth for Uganda, or How an Account by a Transhumant Veterinary Connects Histories, Animal Diseases and Continents (2018)

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Podgorny, Irina (Author)


History and Technology
Volume: 34
Issue: 1
Pages: 71-78


Publication Date: 2018
Edition Details: Special Issue: Thinking with the World: Histories of Science and Technology from the ‘Out There’
Language: English

The picture of a ‘pony in pajamas’ is used to construct the backstory of a deadly animal disease in three parts. First, by focusing on the figure of the ‘author’ of the cloth depicted in the picture, Scottish veterinarian Robert John Stordy, one can examine the repercussions of transhumant biographical itineraries. Second, a focus on regional epizootics helps alter scales defining the local versus the global. Third, the global circulation of mules and the medicines used to cure them illustrate displacement of objects and knowledge that shaped the understanding of sickness and its remedies. Thus, the remedies and horse-clothes used in Uganda not only speak of things and beings that linked distant geographies and contexts, they also mark the multiple hubs where these connections did occur, propelled in part by commercial interests, biographical itineraries and, of course, randomness.

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Authors & Contributors
Brown, Karen
Schwarzenberger, Martina
Campanile, Benedetta
Zhijun Zhao
Cornelia Knab
Cheville, Norman F.
Concepts
Veterinary medicine
Animal diseases
Agriculture
Horses
Medicine
Transmission of material objects
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
20th century
Medieval
Ancient
18th century
Places
Italy
Great Britain
Middle and Near East
East Asia
Palestine
Turkey
Institutions
Kingdom of Italy (1861-1946)
Centraal Instituut voor DierziekteControle
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