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Author Shetler, Jan Bender.

Title Imagining Serengeti : a history of landscape memory in Tanzania from earliest times to the present / Jan Bender Shetler
Published Athens : Ohio University Press, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 378 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series New African histories series
New African histories series.
Contents pt. 1. Past ways of seeing and using the landscape -- pt. 2. Landscape memory and historical challenges
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-360) and index
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Subject Landscape assessment -- Tanzania -- Serengeti National Park
Landscape changes -- Tanzania -- Serengeti National Park
Landscapes -- Social aspects -- Tanzania -- Serengeti National Park
Geographical perception -- Tanzania -- Serengeti National Park
Oral tradition -- Tanzania -- Serengeti National Park
HISTORY -- Africa -- Central.
Geographical perception
Landscape assessment
Landscape changes
Landscapes -- Social aspects
Oral tradition
Ortsgedächtnis
Landschaftspflege.
Tanzania -- Serengeti National Park
Tansania
Serengeti
Tanzania.
Serengeti.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2006101502
ISBN 9780821442432
0821442430