Biltong Hunting as a Performance of Belonging in Post-Apartheid South Africa (eBook)

Andre Goodrich (Autor)

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2015
206 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-0-7391-8859-0 (ISBN)

Infos

Rifling through Nature analyzes landscape, hunting, identity, and belonging by examining the staging of biltong hunting on wildlife ranches in South Africa. It examines how hunting landscapes have become sites where formerly dominant white settler masculinity can perform rootedness and belonging vis-à-vis its loss of political power.

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Since the early 1990s, the seventeen-fold growth in South African sport hunting has made the South African wildlife ranching industry the sixth largest contributor to South Africa's agricultural sector, bringing in $680 million per annum. Biltong Hunting as a Performance of Belonging in Post-Apartheid South Africa links biltong hunting's rapid growth to the 1990s disassembly of the apartheid state and analyzes how the hierarchy, and belonging that biltong hunters associate with it, emerges anew in the post-apartheid context. It examines the narrative and embodied strategies employed by hunters and farmers to create a space that naturalizes the mythic Afrikaner nationalist past in the post-apartheid present.

Autor

Andre Goodrich is senior lecturer in social anthropology at the North-West University in South Africa.

Inhalt

Chapter 2 The Specter’s Space: Imperialism, Nationalism and the Spatiality of Capitalist NatureChapter 5 At Play in the Veld of Belonging: Symbolic Labor and the Enfolding of Nationalist Belonging into the Hunting Nature Object-WorldChapter 6 Escaping Modernity by Telling to Tell: The Narrative Education of Play and RetrospectionChapter 7 Resistance and the Art of Domination: A Narrative Return to Dominance within an Embodied Escape from the ModernConclusionReferencesAbout the Author

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.3.2015
• Zusatzinfo: 3 Illustrations including: - 3 Tables.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Angeln / Jagd
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft
• Schlagworte: commercial hunting • ecocritical ethnography • Environmental history • hunting and masculinity • hunting and politics • hunting tourism industry • South African ecotourism • South African hunting • South African masculinity
• ISBN-10: 0-7391-8859-3 / 0739188593
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7391-8859-0 / 9780739188590