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Imagining Serengeti : a history of landscape memory in Tanzania from earliest times to the present

Many students come to African history with a host of stereotypes that are not always easy to dislodge. One of the most common is that of Africa as safari grounds-as the land of expansive, unpopulated game reserves untouched by civilization and preserved in their original pristine state by the tireless efforts of contemporary conservationists. With prose that is elegant in its simplicity and analysis that is forceful and compelling, Jan Bender Shetler brings the landscape memory of the Serengeti to life. She demonstrates how the social identities of western Serengeti peoples are embedded in sp
eBook, English, ©2007
Ohio University Press, Athens, ©2007
1 online resource (xiii, 378 pages) : illustrations, maps
9780821442432, 0821442430
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pt. 1. Past ways of seeing and using the landscape
pt. 2. Landscape memory and historical challenges
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011
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