3 - Regulating Death
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 October 2021
Summary
In this chapter I explore how the colonial regime in Myanmar attempted to regulate the killing of animals, first in schemes to encourage the slaughter of vermin and second in regimes for limiting and controlling animal death. In both of these areas of colonial governance, fraud was an unintended consequence of imperial policies, in part because of the perverse incentives produced through giving animal death a state-sanctioned monetary value.
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- Colonizing Animals , pp. 83 - 106Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021