Life as a Hunt: Thresholds of Identities and Illusions on an African Landscape

Contents\nFigures and Tables\nPreface and Acknowledgments\nAbbreviations and Glossary\nIntroduction. On Poaching an Elephant: Calling the Shots and Following the Ricochets\nChapter 1 History and Circumstance: On Becoming and Being Bisa\nChapter 2 Creating and Sustaining a Good Life within a Difficult Environment\nChapter 3 Never an Isolated Place Suspended in A-Historic Space\nSection II On the Quest for Local Sustainability\nChapter 4 A Cultural Grid: Making Sense of the Natural World\nChapter 5 Caused to Hunt: Life Histories of Three Generations (1903–2003\nChapter 6 Coping with Process and Uncertainty: Gameful Pursuits in the Bush\nChapter 7 Changes in Scope and Scale: Lineage Provisioning through Hunting\nChapter 8 Muzzle-loaders and Snares: Weapons within Their Cultural Contexts\nChapter 9 Buffalo Mystique: Protein, Privilege, Power, and Politics\nChapter 10 On Coping within a Cornucopia of Change\nAfterword: Readings “Out Loud” about Land and Wildlife as Properties\nReferences\nIndex