Hunting Africa [electronic resource] : British Sport, African Knowledge and the Nature of Empire /
Thompsell, Angela.author.
This book recovers the multiplicity of meanings embedded in colonial hunting and the power it symbolized by examining both the incorporation and representation of British women hunters in the sport and how African people leveraged British hunters' dependence on their labor and knowledge to direct the impact and experience of hunting.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Reconsidering hunting as a site of masculine and imperial domination -- Real men, savage nature : the rise of African big game hunting -- The bitter thraldom of dependence : negotiating the hunt -- Guns and reeds : Africanizing British big game hunting -- Lady lion hunters : an imperial femininity -- To make a fetish of roughing it : remembering hunting in the age of safari, 1900-1914 -- Imperial mastery.
This book recovers the multiplicity of meanings embedded in colonial hunting and the power it symbolized by examining both the incorporation and representation of British women hunters in the sport and how African people leveraged British hunters' dependence on their labor and knowledge to direct the impact and experience of hunting.
Africa-History.
Imperialism.
Sociology.
Great Britain-History.
Sports.
African History.
Imperialism and Colonialism.
Gender Studies.
History of Britain and Ireland.
Popular Science in Sports.