Biltong hunting as a performance of belonging in post-apartheid South Africa /

Goodrich, Andre,

Biltong hunting as a performance of belonging in post-apartheid South Africa / Andre Goodrich. - 1 online resource (201 pages)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The biltong hunting landscape: how the haunting of hunting repositions "nature" -- The specter's space: imperialism, nationalism and the spatiality of capitalist nature -- Violent desire and intimate invisibility: how the reciprocity of structured competitive play becomes the hunting nature object-world -- Unlevelling the playing field; unbalancing the reciprocity: preparing the nature object-world in the commercial hunting context -- At play in the veld of belonging: symbolic labor and the enfolding of nationalist belonging into the hunting nature object-world -- Escaping modernity by telling to tell: the narrative education of play and retrospection -- Resistance and the art of domination: a narrative return to dominance within an embodied escape from the modern.

9780739188590 (e-book)


Hunting--Social aspects--South Africa.
Human ecology--South Africa.
Whites--Race identity--South Africa.


South Africa--Social life and customs.


Electronic books.

SK251 / .G56 2015

639/.10968