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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788147303321

Autore

Goodrich Andre

Titolo

Biltong hunting as a performance of belonging in post-apartheid South Africa / / Andre Goodrich

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham : , : Lexington Books, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

0-7391-8859-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (201 p.)

Disciplina

639/.10968

Soggetti

Hunting - Social aspects - South Africa

Human ecology - South Africa

White people - Race identity - South Africa

South Africa Social life and customs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The biltong hunting landscape: how the haunting of hunting repositions "nature" -- The specter's space: imperialism, nationalism and the spatiality of capitalist nature -- Violent desire and intimate invisibility: how the reciprocity of structured competitive play becomes the hunting nature object-world -- Unlevelling the playing field; unbalancing the reciprocity: preparing the nature object-world in the commercial hunting context -- At play in the veld of belonging: symbolic labor and the enfolding of nationalist belonging into the hunting nature object-world -- Escaping modernity by telling to tell: the narrative education of play and retrospection -- Resistance and the art of domination: a narrative return to dominance within an embodied escape from the modern.

Sommario/riassunto

Chapter 2 The Specter's Space: Imperialism, Nationalism and the Spatiality of Capitalist NatureChapter 5 At Play in the Veld of Belonging: Symbolic Labor and the Enfolding of Nationalist Belonging into the Hunting Nature Object-WorldChapter 6 Escaping Modernity by Telling to Tell: The Narrative Education of Play and RetrospectionChapter 7 Resistance and the Art of Domination: A Narrative Return to Dominance within an Embodied Escape from the



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