Life as a Hunt

Thresholds of Identities and Illusions on an African Landscape
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-78533-157-2
Verlag: BERGHAHN BOOKS INC

Buch, Englisch, 518 Seiten, HC gerader Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 934 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Marks, Stuart

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltschutz, Umwelterhaltung
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Umwelt und Kultur, Kulturökologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Preface

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations



Introduction: On Poaching an Elephant: Calling the Shots and Following the Ricochets

SECTION I: ON BECOMING, BEING AND STAYING BISA

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. Gameful Pursuits in the Bush: coping with Process and Uncertainty

Chapter 7. Lineage Provisioning through Hunting: Changes in Scope and Scale

Chapter 8. Muzzle-loaders and Snares: Weapons within their Cultural Contexts

Chapter 9. Buffalo Mystique: Protein, Privilege, Power and Politics

SECTION III: THE CHALLENGES OF DECREASING ENTITLEMENTS

Chapter 10. On Coping within a Cornucopia of Uncertain, Constant Changes

Afterword: Readings ‘Out Loud’ about Land and Wildlife as Properties

Notes Section

References

Über Autor(innen)

Marks, Stuart
Stuart Marks was Professor of Anthropology and Environmental Sciences at St. Andrews College, Laurinburg, N.C (1970-1983). He has worked as an independent scholar as well as a consultant to governments, international donor agencies and conservation NGOs.  His other books on Zambia include Large Mammals and a Brave People (1976); The Imperial Lion (1984); and Discordant Village Voices (2014).  He also wrote Southern Hunting in Black and White: Nature, History and Rituals in a Carolina Community (1991), an award-winning volume on his US Southern homeland.

Stuart Marks was Professor of Anthropology and Environmental Sciences at St. Andrews College, Laurinburg, N.C (1970-1983). He has worked as an independent scholar as well as a consultant to governments, international donor agencies and conservation NGOs.  His other books on Zambia include Large Mammals and a Brave People (1976); The Imperial Lion (1984); and Discordant Village Voices (2014).  He also wrote Southern Hunting in Black and White: Nature, History and Rituals in a Carolina Community (1991), an award-winning volume on his US Southern homeland.