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Shaping the African Savannah - From Capitalist Frontier to Arid Eden in Namibia (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Shaping the African Savannah - From Capitalist Frontier to Arid Eden in Namibia (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: African Studies
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Total price: R2,696
Discovery Miles: 26 960
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The southern African savannah landscape has been framed as an 'Arid
Eden' in recent literature, as one of Africa's most sought after
exotic tourism destinations by twenty-first century travellers, as
a 'last frontier' by early twentieth-century travellers and as an
ancient ancestral land by Namibia's Herero communities. In this
150-year history of the region, Michael Bollig looks at how this
'Arid Eden' came into being, how this 'last frontier' was
construed, and how local pastoralists relate to the landscape.
Putting the intricate and changing relations between humans, arid
savannah grasslands and its co-evolving animal inhabitants at the
centre of his analysis, this history of material relations, of
power struggles between commercial hunters and wildlife, between
wealthy cattle patrons and foraging clients, between established
homesteads and recent migrants, conservationists and pastoralists.
Finally, Bollig highlights how futures are being aspired to and
planned for between the increasing challenges of climate change,
global demands for cheap ores and quests for biodiversity
conservation.
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