Addresses the global conundrum of how to promote 'sustainable conservation and biological diversity, especially under 'weak governments. Portrays three generations of rural cultivators as they narrate their livelihoods' struggles. Explains how they cope with changing bureaucratic resource policies affecting their individual and corporate welfare.
Addresses the global conundrum of how to promote 'sustainable conservation and biological diversity, especially under 'weak governments. Portrays three generations of rural cultivators as they narrate their livelihoods' struggles. Explains how they cope with changing bureaucratic resource policies affecting their individual and corporate welfare.
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.
Inhaltsangabe
List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgements Abbreviations 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
List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgements Abbreviations 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
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