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Imagining Serengeti: A History of Landscape Memory in Tanzania from Earliest Times to the Present

Imagining Serengeti: A History of Landscape Memory in Tanzania from Earliest Times to the Present

Shetler, Jan Bender

Paperback

Series: New African Histories

African HistoryGeneral SociologyGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0821417509
ISBN13: 9780821417508
Publisher: Ohio Univ Pr
Published: Jun 15 2007
Pages: 392
Weight: 1.16
Height: 1.02 Width: 6.35 Depth: 8.97
Language: English

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 specific spaces and in their collective memories of those spaces. Using a new methodology to analyze precolonial oral traditions, Shetler identifies core spatial images and reevaluates them in their historical context through the use of archaeological, linguistic, ethnographic, ecological, and archival evidence. Imagining Serengeti is a lively environmental history that will ensure that we never look at images of the African landscape in quite the same way.

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