مؤلف: Philip Gooding

Martha Chaiklin received her Ph D from Leiden University, The Netherlands. She first became interested in animals when researching her book, Cultural Commerce and Dutch Commercial Culture (2003), and has since combined her interest in material culture and animals in publications on elephants, live animal gifts, tortoiseshell and ivory. Philip Gooding is a postdoctoral fellow at the Indian Ocean World Centre, and a course lecturer in the Department of History and Classical Studies at Mc Gill University, Canada. He has published articles in Slavery and Abolition and The Journal of African History, among other journals. Gwyn Campbell is the founding Director of the Indian Ocean World Centre at Mc Gill University, Canada. His publications include Africa and the Indian Ocean World from early times to circa 1900 (2019), David Griffiths and the Missionary “History of Madagascar” (2012), and An Economic History of Imperial Madagascar, 1750-1895 (2005).