Imagining Serengeti : A History of Landscape Memory in Tanzania from Earliest Times to the Present.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (520 pages)
- New African Histories Series .
- New African Histories Series .
Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction Landscapes of Memory -- PART I PAST WAYS OF SEEING AND USING THE LANDSCAPE -- Chapter 1 Ecological Landscapes: Settling Frontier Environments (Asimoka), ca. 300 CE to Present -- Chapter 2 Social Landscapes: Forging Food Security Networks (Hamate), ca. 1000 CE to Present -- Chapter 3 Sacred Landscapes: Claiming Ritual Space of the Ancestral Land (Emisambwa), ca. 1500 to Present -- PART II LANDSCAPE MEMORY AND HISTORICAL CHALLENGE -- Chapter 4 The Time of Disasters: Creating Wilderness, 1840-1920 -- Chapter 5 Resistance to Colonial Incorporation: Becoming "Poachers," 1900-1950 -- Chapter 6 The Creation of Serengeti National Park: Voicing Global Concerns, 1950-2003 -- Glossary -- Notes -- Bibliography.
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.