TY - BOOK AU - Marks,Stuart TI - Life as a Hunt: Thresholds of Identities and Illusions on an African Landscape SN - 9781785331572 AV - DT3058.B58 M373 2016eb U1 - 305.896/391 23 PY - 2016///] CY - New York, Oxford PB - Berghahn Books KW - Bisa (Zambian people) KW - Hunting KW - Subsistence hunting KW - Luangwa River Valley (Zambia and Mozambique) KW - Wildlife conservation KW - Social aspects KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social KW - bisacsh KW - africas environmental and wildlife crises KW - anthropologists KW - callousness and challenges of colonialism KW - conservationists KW - enriched environment for centuries KW - homeland of valley bisa KW - intrusion of warlords and british colonials KW - most african protected areas KW - story of valley bisa KW - three national parks and escarpment KW - zambia KW - zambias central luangwa valley N1 - 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; restricted access N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781785331589?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781785331589 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781785331589/original ER -