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