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... was productive for Western empires, who were concerned with arbitrating the human in programs of war as much as settlement. The second part of the essay focuses on notions of descent from animals in South Asia with respect to how colonists studied alleged feral children, as much as the placement of accounts...

... feral children had manifested themselves earlier, in the context of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century literature and philosophy in Europe. In particular, they had enjoyed the significant attention of Enlightenment thinkers grappling with ideas about nature , wildness , savagery , and nurture...

...–63; al-Naqar, The Pil- chapter of a voyage to London to be honored by the 42. This category of pilgrims was the only one com- grimage Tradition in West Africa, 137. M. B. McDon- king). He performed it again in 1933, apparently on posed entirely of men; women and children had nell...

...Thomas Asher; Steve Ouma Akoth Abstract This essay foregrounds mobility in cities in the global South in order to recast our current understanding of how informal settlements function and how residents of these neighborhoods navigate increasingly feral economies. Focusing largely on an informal...

.... Derrida, The Beast and the Sovereign , 23 . 39. See Roy, “On Verminous Life.” 38. The anecdotes get progressively worse as Mayo reports the views of “a widely experienced surgeon” on how various presidencies expose “children ruined and crippled, either from infection or cruel handling...

... . Pearson Susan J. The Rights of the Defenseless: Protecting Animals and Children in Gilded Age America . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2011 . Pellat Charles . The Life and Works of Jāḥiẓ, Translations of Selected Texts . Translated by Hawke D. M. . Berkeley : University...