Imagining Serengeti [[electronic resource] ] : a history of landscape memory in Tanzania from earliest times to the present / / Jan Bender Shetler

• Autore: Shetler Jan Bender
• Pubblicazione: Athens, : Ohio University Press, c2007
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (393 p.)
• Disciplina: 967.8
• Soggetto topico: Landscape assessment - Tanzania - Serengeti National Park; Landscape changes - Tanzania - Serengeti National Park; Landscapes - Social aspects - Tanzania - Serengeti National Park; Geographical perception - Tanzania - Serengeti National Park; Oral tradition - Tanzania - Serengeti National Park
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 325-360) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction Landscapes of Memory; 1 Ecological Landscapes; 2 Social Landscapes; 3 Sacred Landscapes; 4 The Time of Disasters; 5 Resistance to Colonial Incorporation; 6 The Creation of Serengeti National Park; Glossary; Notes; Bibliography
• Sommario/riassunto: Many students come to African history with a host of stereotypes that are not always easy to dislodge. One of the most common is that of Africa as safari grounds-as the land of expansive, unpopulated game reserves untouched by civilization and preserved in their original pristine state by the tireless efforts of contemporary conservationists. With prose that is elegant in its simplicity and analysis that is forceful and compelling, Jan Bender Shetler brings the landscape memory of the Serengeti to life. She demonstrates how the social identities of western Serengeti peoples are embedded in sp
• Titolo autorizzato: Imagining Serengeti
• ISBN: 0-8214-4243-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910780899003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: New African histories series.