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The "extensive wilderness" of Zambia's central Luangwa Valley is the homeland of the Valley Bisa whose cultural practices have enriched this environment for centuries. Beginning with the intrusions of warlords and later British colonials, successive generations have experienced the callousness and challenges of colonialism. Their homeland, a slender corridor surrounded by three national parks and an escarpment, is a microcosm of the political, economic and cultural battlefields surrounding most African protected areas today. The story of the Valley Bisa diverges from the myths that conservationists, administrators, and philanthropists, tell about Africa's environmental and wildlife crises.
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Preface
Acknowledgements
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Introduction: On Poaching an Elephant: Calling the Shots and Following the Ricochets
SECTION I: ON BECOMING, BEING AND STAYING BISA Chapter 1. History and Circumstance: On becoming and Being Bisa
Chapter 2. Creating and Sustaining a Good Life within a Difficult Environment
Chapter 3. Never an Isolated Place Suspended in A-Historic Space
SECTION II: ON THE QUEST FOR LOCAL SUSTAINABILITY Chapter 4. A Cultural Grid: Making Sense of the Natural World
Chapter 5. Caused to Hunt: Life Histories of Three Generations (1903-2003)
Chapter 6. Gameful Pursuits in the Bush: coping with Process and Uncertainty
Chapter 7. Lineage Provisioning through Hunting: Changes in Scope and Scale
Chapter 8. Muzzle-loaders and Snares: Weapons within their Cultural Contexts
Chapter 9. Buffalo Mystique: Protein, Privilege, Power and Politics
SECTION III: THE CHALLENGES OF DECREASING ENTITLEMENTS Chapter 10. On Coping within a Cornucopia of Uncertain, Constant Changes
Afterword: Readings 'Out Loud' about Land and Wildlife as Properties
Notes Section
References
A propos de l'auteur
Stuart Marks was Professor of Anthropology and Environmental Sciences at St. Andrews College, Laurinburg, N.C (1970-1983). He has worked as an independent scholar as well as a consultant to governments, international donor agencies and conservation NGOs. His other books on Zambia include
Large Mammals and a Brave People (1976);
The Imperial Lion (1984); and
Discordant Village Voices (2014). He also wrote
Southern Hunting in Black and White: Nature, History and Rituals in a Carolina Community (1991), an award-winning volume on his US Southern homeland.
