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Informationen zum Autor Jan Bender Shetler is an associate professor of African and world history at Goshen College in Goshen! Indiana. She is the author of Telling Our Own Stories: Local Histories from South Mara! Tanzania. Klappentext 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 that preserves the ways in which western Serengeti peoples have actively transformed their environment and their societies. Zusammenfassung Long before the creation of the Serengeti National Park, the people of Serengeti had established settlements and interacted with the environment in ways that created a landscape we misconstrue as natural. This book helps us see the landscape as something that preserves the ways in which Serengeti people have actively transformed their environment.
