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Life as a hunt : thresholds of identities and illusions on an African landscape / Stuart A. Marks

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Marks, Stuart A., 1939-
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New York ; Oxford : Berghahn, 2016.
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1 online resource (xi, 504 pages)
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Contents
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.
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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9781785331589 (electronic bk.)
1785331582 (electronic bk.)
9781785331572
1785331574
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 461-472) and index.
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