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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2016
• VerfasserIn: Marks, Stuart,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (518 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

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