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. I"magining
Serengeti" reconstructs a socioenvironmental history of landscape
memory of the western Serengeti spanning the last eighteen hundred
years.
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