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Life as a Hunt : Thresholds of Identities and Illusions on an African Landscape / Stuart Marks.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource (518 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781785331572
  • 9781785331589
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.896/391 23
LOC classification:
  • DT3058.B58 M373 2016eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations and Glossary -- Introduction. On Poaching an Elephant: Calling the Shots and Following the Ricochets -- Chapter 1 History and Circumstance: On Becoming and Being Bisa -- Chapter 2 Creating and Sustaining a Good Life within a Difficult Environment -- Chapter 3 Never an Isolated Place Suspended in A-Historic Space -- Section II On the Quest for Local Sustainability -- Chapter 4 A Cultural Grid: Making Sense of the Natural World -- Chapter 5 Caused to Hunt: Life Histories of Three Generations (1903–2003 -- Chapter 6 Coping with Process and Uncertainty: Gameful Pursuits in the Bush -- Chapter 7 Changes in Scope and Scale: Lineage Provisioning through Hunting -- Chapter 8 Muzzle-loaders and Snares: Weapons within Their Cultural Contexts -- Chapter 9 Buffalo Mystique: Protein, Privilege, Power, and Politics -- Chapter 10 On Coping within a Cornucopia of Change -- Afterword: Readings “Out Loud” about Land and Wildlife as Properties -- References -- Index
Summary: The "extensive wilderness" of Zambia’s central Luangwa Valley is the homeland of the Valley Bisa whose cultural practices have enriched this environment for centuries. Beginning with the intrusions of warlords and later British colonials, successive generations have experienced the callousness and challenges of colonialism. Their homeland, a slender corridor surrounded by three national parks and an escarpment, is a microcosm of the political, economic and cultural battlefields surrounding most African protected areas today. The story of the Valley Bisa diverges from the myths that conservationists, administrators, and philanthropists, tell about Africa’s environmental and wildlife crises.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations and Glossary -- Introduction. On Poaching an Elephant: Calling the Shots and Following the Ricochets -- Chapter 1 History and Circumstance: On Becoming and Being Bisa -- Chapter 2 Creating and Sustaining a Good Life within a Difficult Environment -- Chapter 3 Never an Isolated Place Suspended in A-Historic Space -- Section II On the Quest for Local Sustainability -- Chapter 4 A Cultural Grid: Making Sense of the Natural World -- Chapter 5 Caused to Hunt: Life Histories of Three Generations (1903–2003 -- Chapter 6 Coping with Process and Uncertainty: Gameful Pursuits in the Bush -- Chapter 7 Changes in Scope and Scale: Lineage Provisioning through Hunting -- Chapter 8 Muzzle-loaders and Snares: Weapons within Their Cultural Contexts -- Chapter 9 Buffalo Mystique: Protein, Privilege, Power, and Politics -- Chapter 10 On Coping within a Cornucopia of Change -- Afterword: Readings “Out Loud” about Land and Wildlife as Properties -- References -- Index

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The "extensive wilderness" of Zambia’s central Luangwa Valley is the homeland of the Valley Bisa whose cultural practices have enriched this environment for centuries. Beginning with the intrusions of warlords and later British colonials, successive generations have experienced the callousness and challenges of colonialism. Their homeland, a slender corridor surrounded by three national parks and an escarpment, is a microcosm of the political, economic and cultural battlefields surrounding most African protected areas today. The story of the Valley Bisa diverges from the myths that conservationists, administrators, and philanthropists, tell about Africa’s environmental and wildlife crises.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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