Black Poachers, White Hunters

A Social History of Hunting in Colonial Kenya

AvEdward I. Steinhart

Häftad, Engelska, 2005

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For centuries, Kenya's game-laden plains and forests were the rewarding hunting grounds of her native African population. Black Poachers, White Hunters traces the history of hunting there in the colonial era, describing the British attempt to impose the practices and values of nineteenth-century European aristocratic hunts. This both created and enforced an image of African inferiority and subordination. Ultimately, conservationists came to claim sovereignty over African wildlife, completing the transformation of indigenous hunters into criminal poachers and seeking to eliminate them altogether from the "sportsman's paradise" of Kenya.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2005-12-15
Mått:140 x 216 x undefined mm
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Eastern African Studies
Antal sidor:320
Förlag:Ohio University Press
ISBN:9780821416648

Utforska kategorier

Diskriminering och rättvisa inom Samhälle och politik
Etnicitet inom Samhälle och politik
Historia inom Historia och arkeologi

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Edward I. Steinhart is a professor of history at Texas Tech University, Lubbock.

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"This exciting, accessible, and challenging book is a timely addition to the literature.... Steinhart uses fascinating oral testimony to reconstruct African hunting histories and traditions in Kenya's eastern region...." "The simple genius of this fascinating study is that it integrates the histories of hunting by African people in Kenya and hunting by white residents and visitors to the colony." "(A) superb social history of hunting in Kenya.... The individual work and the series represent a significant achievement in Africanist scholarship." "A masterly survey based on an impressive and wide-ranging list of primary and secondary sources."