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

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 ca...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Marks, Stuart (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2016]
Temas:
Bisa (Zambian people) > Hunting.
Subsistence hunting > Luangwa River Valley (Zambia and Mozambique)
Subsistence hunting > Luangwa River Valley (Zambia and Mozambique).
Wildlife conservation > Social aspects > Luangwa River Valley (Zambia and Mozambique)
Wildlife conservation > Social aspects > Luangwa River Valley (Zambia and Mozambique).
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
africas environmental and wildlife crises.
anthropologists.
callousness and challenges of colonialism.
conservationists.
enriched environment for centuries.
homeland of valley bisa.
intrusion of warlords and british colonials.
most african protected areas.
story of valley bisa.
three national parks and escarpment.
zambia.
zambias central luangwa valley.
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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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