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Imagining Serengeti A History of Landscape Memory in Tanzania from Earliest Times to the Present

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ISBN-10: 0821417509

ISBN-13: 9780821417508

Edition: 2007

Authors: Jan Bender Shetler

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Long before the creation of the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania, the people of the western Serengeti had established settlements and interacted with the environment in ways that created a landscape we now misconstrue as natural. Western Serengeti peoples imagine the environment not as a pristine wilderness, but as a differentiated social landscape that embodies their history and identity. Conservationist literature has ignored these now-displaced peoples and relegated them to the margins of modern society. Their oral traditions, however, provide the means for seeing the landscape from a new perspective. "Imagining Serengeti "allows us to see the Serengeti landscape as a book of memory…    
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Book details

Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Publication date: 6/15/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 392
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

Introduction : landscapes of memory
Past ways of seeing and using the landscape
Ecological landscapes : settling frontier environments (Asimoka), ca. 300 CE to present
Social landscapes : forging food security networks (Hamate), ca. 1000 CE to present
Sacred landscapes : claiming ritual space of the ancestral land (Emisambwa), ca. 1500 to present
Landscape memory and historical challenges
The time of disasters : creating wilderness, 1840-1920
Resistance to colonial incorporation : becoming "poachers," 1900-1950
The creation of Serengeti National Park : voicing global concerns, 1950-2003
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