Imagining Serengeti: A History of Landscape Memory in Tanzania from Earliest Times to the PresentOhio University Press, 2007 - 378 pages 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. Moreover, it strengthens the case for involving local communities in conservation efforts that will preserve African environments for the future. Using a new methodology to analyze precolonial oral traditions, Jan Shetler identifies core spatial images, which are then recontextualized into historical time periods through the use of archaeological, linguistic, ethnographic, ecological, and archival evidence. Imagining Serengeti reconstructs a socioenvironmental history of landscape memory of the western Serengeti spanning the last eighteen hundred years. |
Table des matières
Ecological Landscapes | 29 |
Social Landscapes | 63 |
1 | 78 |
Droits d'auteur | |
10 autres sections non affichées
Autres éditions - Tout afficher
Imagining Serengeti: A History of Landscape Memory in Tanzania from Earliest ... Jan Bender Shetler Aucun aperçu disponible - 2007 |
Expressions et termes fréquents
age-set Agriculture ancestors animals August Banagi boundaries Bugerera cattle clan colonial conservation core spatial images culture Dar es Salaam descent group Development disasters District Officer East Africa ecological economic ekyaro elders emisambwa engeti environment ethnic groups famine farmers game reserves Game Warden generation-set German Hemba homestead Honorable Chief Secretary hunters hunting Ikizu Ikoma Interview Ishenyi Issenye Kemegesi Kenya Kuria Lake Lake Victoria land lived livestock Maasai Machaba Machota Mang'oha Morigo Mara region Mbiso Morotonga Muriho Musoma District Mwanza Mwanza District Nata National Game Parks Native Ngoreme Nyamaganda Magoto nyangi oral traditions orokoba past places poaching prophet Provincial Commissioner raiding rainmakers recontextualized Report ritual Robanda sacred landscapes saiga Salaam Samweli SAN DIEGO Schoenbrun Secretariat Files September 1995 Serengeti National Park settlements Shetler sleeping sickness Sonjo SRCP stories Sukuma Tanganyika Tanzania Tatoga territory tion trade University Press village Wambura western Serengeti wilderness wildlife Zanaki