Biltong Hunting As a Performance of Belonging in Post-Apartheid South Africa.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (201 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter One: The Biltong Hunting Landscape -- Chapter Two: The Spectre's Space: Imperialism, Nationalism and the Spatiality of Capitalist Nature -- Chapter Three: Violent Desire and Intimate Invisibility -- Chapter Four: Unleveling the Playing Field -- Unbalancing the Reciprocity -- Chapter Five: At Play in the Veld of Belonging -- Chapter Six: Escaping Modernity by Telling to Tell -- Chapter Seven: Resistance and the Art of Domination -- Conclusion -- Reference List -- Index -- About the Author.
Rifling through Nature analyzes landscape, hunting, identity, and belonging by examining the staging of biltong hunting on wildlife ranches in South Africa. It examines how hunting landscapes have become sites where formerly dominant white settler masculinity can perform rootedness and belonging vis-à-vis its loss of political power.
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Hunting--Social aspects--South Africa. Human ecology--South Africa. White people--Race identity--South Africa. South Africa--Social life and customs.