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Record Nr.

UNINA9910798020403321

Autore

Gardner Ben (Benjamin Richard)

Titolo

Selling the Serengeti : the cultural politics of safari tourism / / Benjamin Gardner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Athens, Georgia ; ; London, [England] : , : The University of Georgia Press, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

0-8203-4818-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (249 p.)

Collana

Geographies of justice and social transformation ; ; 23

Disciplina

305.896/5

Soggetti

Maasai (African people) - Tanzania - Economic conditions

Maasai (African people) - Tanzania - Social conditions

Identity politics - Tanzania

Neoliberalism - Social aspects - Tanzania

Land use - Tanzania - Serengeti Plain

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

; Introduction : Safari tourism, pastoralism, and land rights in Tanzania -- Loliondo : making a modern pastoral landscape -- Community conservation : the globalization of Maasailand -- "The lion is in the boma" : making Maasai landscapes for safari trophy hunting -- Nature refuge : reconstructed identity and the cultural politics of tourism investment -- Joint venture : investors and villagers as allies against the state -- Conclusions : neoliberal land rights? -- ; Appendix. Major wildlife and land legislation.