Imagining Serengeti: A History of Landscape Memory in Tanzania from Earliest Time to the Present

摘要: Long before the creation of Serengeti National Park in Tanzania, people western had established settlements and interacted with environment ways that created a landscape we now misconstrue as natural. Western peoples imagine not pristine wilderness, but differentiated social embodies their history identity. Conservationist literature has ignored these now-displaced relegated them to margins modern society. Their oral traditions, however, provide means for seeing from new perspective. Imagining allows us see book memory preserves which have actively transformed societies. Moreover, it strengthens case involving local communities conservation efforts will preserve African environments future. Using methodology analyze precolonial Jan Shetler identifies core spatial images, are then recontextualized into historical time periods through use archaeological, linguistic, ethnographic, ecological, archival evidence. reconstructs socioenvironmental spanning last eighteen hundred years.