Biltong Hunting as a Performance of Belonging in Post-Apartheid South Africa

By (author) Andre Goodrich

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Publication date:

18 March 2015

Length of book:

206 pages

Publisher

Lexington Books

ISBN-13: 9780739188590

Biltong Hunting as a Performance of Belonging in Post-Apartheid South Africa links biltong hunting’s rapid growth to the 1990s disassembly of the apartheid state and analyzes how the hierarchy, and belonging that biltong hunters associate with it, emerges anew in the post-apartheid context. It examines the narrative and embodied strategies employed by hunters and farmers to create a space that naturalizes the mythic Afrikaner nationalist past in the post-apartheid present.

Chapter 2 The Specter’s Space: Imperialism, Nationalism and the Spatiality of Capitalist Nature
Chapter 5 At Play in the Veld of Belonging: Symbolic Labor and the Enfolding of Nationalist Belonging into the Hunting Nature Object-World
Chapter 6 Escaping Modernity by Telling to Tell: The Narrative Education of Play and Retrospection
Chapter 7 Resistance and the Art of Domination: A Narrative Return to Dominance within an Embodied Escape from the Modern
Conclusion
References
About the Author

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