Imagining Serengeti : a history of landscape memory in Tanzania from earliest times to the present
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
xiii, 378 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
9780821417492, 9780821417508, 0821417495, 0821417509
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Introduction : landscapes of memory
Ecological landscapes
Social landscapes
Sacred landscapes
The time of disasters
Resistance to colonial incorporation
The creation of Serengeti National Park