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

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  • ISBN 10 0739188585
  • ISBN 13 9780739188583
  • Published Mar 15 2015
  • Format Hardcover
  • Page Count 206
  • Language English
  • Countries United States
  • Publisher Lexington Books
  • Imprint Lexington Books

Publishers Text

Since the early 1990s, the seventeen-fold growth in South African sport hunting has made the South African wildlife ranching industry the sixth largest contributor to South Africa's agricultural sector, bringing in $680 million per annum. 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.