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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction to the Transaction Edition -- Preface -- Foreword -- I. Preliminaries and Introduction to the Study -- PART ONE: The Culture and Society of the Valley Bisa -- II. History and Population Characteristics of the Valley Bisa -- III. Social and Ideological Organizition -- IV. Technology, Subsistence, and Seasonal Activities -- PART TWO: Cultural Dimensions of the Hunting Process -- V. Hunting in Prologue and Process -- VI. Programming a Hunter -- VII. Drama of the Hunt -- PART THREE: Configurations of the Hunting System -- VIII. Description of Habitats and Bisa Influences -- IX. Population Structure and Ecology of the Larger Mammals -- X. Valley Bisa Hunters and Their Prey -- XI. Prospects for the Future -- Afterword -- Appendixes -- Bibliography -- Index

For many Southern men living in or close to rural landscapes, hunting is a passion. But it is not a timeless activity in a cultural void. Whether pursuers of fox or raccoon, deer or rabbits, quail or dove, Southern hunters reveal for Stuart Marks complex patterns of male bonding, social status, and relationships with nature. Marks, who has written two outstanding books on hunting in Africa, was born and has long lived in the South. Examining Southern hunting from frontier times through the antebellum era to the present day, he shows it to be a litmus test of rural identity. "Drawing on the latest anthropological theory, statistical sources, extensive interviews, and historical research, [Marks] has crafted a multifaceted account of Southern hunting. Relations of race, property, gender, and region appear in fresh guises in this innovative and intriguing study. The portrayal of the contemporary state of hunting is especially interesting, revealing both the continuities with the past and the new pressures on the sport."--Virginia Quarterly Review

Introduction On Poaching an Elephant : Calling the Shots and Following the Ricochets -- History and Circumstance: On becoming and Being Bisa -- Creating and Sustaining a Good Life within a Difficult Environment -- Never an Isolated Place Suspended in A-Historic Space -- A Cultural Grid : Making Sense of the Natural World -- Caused to Hunt : Life Histories of Three Generations (1903-2003) -- Gameful Pursuits in the Bush : coping with Process and Uncertainty -- Lineage Provisioning through Hunting : Changes in Scope and Scale -- Muzzle-loaders and Snares : Weapons within their Cultural Contexts -- Buffalo Mystique : Protein, Privilege, Power and Politics -- On Coping within a Cornucopia of Uncertain, Constant Changes -- Afterword : Readings "Out Loud" about Land and Wildlife as Properties.

Community-based wildlife programs were implemented widely in southern Africa during the past two decades to attempt to overcome the problems associated with the earlier strict protection policies and to integrate wildlife conservation with human development. Many of these programs now have a history, making it possible to assess their achievements and unresolved problems. A case study from the central Luangwa Valley of Zambia provides indices of cultural and resource trends before and after the implementation of a community-based program and describes its effects.

In einer sozialwissenschaftlichen Analyse geht es um beabsichtigte und ungewollte Folgen von auf Gemeindeebene angesiedelten "Wildlife"-Programmen und -Projekten im südlichen Afrika am Beispiel des "Administrative Management Design for Game Management Areas" (ADMADE) in Sambia. In den vergangenen beiden Jahrzehnten wurden im südlichen Afrika viele Programme implementiert, in denen zwei Ziele miteinander in Einklang zu bringen versucht wurde: Schutz der Tierwelt einerseits, Entwicklungsperspektiven für die Menschen anderseits. Wie sieht die Zwischenbilanz aus? (DÜI-Kör)