Imagining Serengeti : a history of landscape memory in Tanzania from earliest times to the present / Jan Bender Shetler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shetler, Jan Bender.

Series:

New African histories series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Landscape assessment--Tanzania--Serengeti National Park.

Landscape assessment.

Landscape changes--Tanzania--Serengeti National Park.

Landscape changes.

Landscapes--Social aspects--Tanzania--Serengeti National Park.

Landscapes.

Geographical perception--Tanzania--Serengeti National Park.

Geographical perception.

Oral tradition--Tanzania--Serengeti National Park.

Oral tradition.

Landscapes--Social aspects.

Tanzania--Serengeti National Park.

Physical Description:

xiii, 378 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Athens : Ohio University Press, [2007]

Summary:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-360) and index.

ISBN:

9780821417492

0821417495

9780821417508

0821417509

OCLC:

77048124

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