Biltong hunting as a performance of belonging in post-apartheid South Africa / Andre Goodrich.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goodrich, Andre, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hunting--Social aspects--South Africa.

Hunting.

Human ecology--South Africa.

Human ecology.

White people--Race identity--South Africa.

White people.

South Africa--Social life and customs.

South Africa.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (201 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Lexington Books, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

The biltong hunting landscape: how the haunting of hunting repositions "nature"

The specter's space: imperialism, nationalism and the spatiality of capitalist nature

Violent desire and intimate invisibility: how the reciprocity of structured competitive play becomes the hunting nature object-world

Unlevelling the playing field; unbalancing the reciprocity: preparing the nature object-world in the commercial hunting context

At play in the veld of belonging: symbolic labor and the enfolding of nationalist belonging into the hunting nature object-world

Escaping modernity by telling to tell: the narrative education of play and retrospection

Resistance and the art of domination: a narrative return to dominance within an embodied escape from the modern.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-7391-8859-3