Life as a hunt : thresholds of identities and illusions on an African landscape /

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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 ca...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Marks, Stuart A., 1939- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn, 2016.
Temas:
Bisa (Zambian people) > Hunting.
Subsistence hunting > Luangwa River Valley (Zambia and Mozambique)
Wildlife conservation > Social aspects > Luangwa River Valley (Zambia and Mozambique)
Bisa (Peuple de Zambie) > Chasse.
Chasse de subsistance > Luangwa, Vallée de la (Zambie et Mozambique)
Faune > Protection > Aspect social > Luangwa, Vallée de la (Zambie et Mozambique)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
Ecology
Subsistence hunting
Wildlife conservation > Social aspects
Luangwa River Valley (Zambia and Mozambique) > Environmental conditions.
Luangwa, Vallée de la (Zambie et Mozambique) > Conditions environnementales.
Africa > Luangwa River Valley
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction On Poaching an Elephant : Calling the Shots and Following the Ricochets
  • History and Circumstance: On becoming and Being Bisa
  • Creating and Sustaining a Good Life within a Difficult Environment
  • Never an Isolated Place Suspended in A-Historic Space
  • A Cultural Grid : Making Sense of the Natural World
  • Caused to Hunt : Life Histories of Three Generations (1903-2003)
  • Gameful Pursuits in the Bush : coping with Process and Uncertainty
  • Lineage Provisioning through Hunting : Changes in Scope and Scale
  • Muzzle-loaders and Snares : Weapons within their Cultural Contexts
  • Buffalo Mystique : Protein, Privilege, Power and Politics
  • On Coping within a Cornucopia of Uncertain, Constant Changes
  • Afterword : Readings "Out Loud" about Land and Wildlife as Properties.

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