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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      20 April 2020
      05 March 2020
      ISBN:
      9781108778794
      9781108478779
      9781108746182
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108778794
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.53kg, 270 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.4kg, 272 Pages
      • Series:
      The International African Library (61)
      Subjects:
      Area Studies, African Studies, Social and Cultural Anthropology, History, Anthropology: General Interest, Anthropology, African History
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    Series:
    The International African Library (61)
    Subjects:
    Area Studies, African Studies, Social and Cultural Anthropology, History, Anthropology: General Interest, Anthropology, African History
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    Northeastern Central African Republic - a vast space bordering Chad, Darfur, and South Sudan - is a quintessential 'stateless' space, where the government has little presence and armed actors operate freely. In this first ethnographic and historical study of Central African raiding, Louisa Lombard investigates practices of forceful acquisition, a distinctive political repertoire in which claims to social status are linked to the ability to take (from wild spaces, or from others) and are frequently overturned. People have developed raiding skills to survive and live in a stateless borderland for over 150 years. From the trans-Saharan slave trade, to colonial forced labour regimes, big game hunting and coercive conservation, to rebellion, raiding has flourished where people's status in relation to each other is unclear and where institutional guidance is absent. Hunting Game offers rich comparative insights into the vibrant, if not always salutary, role that forceful acquisition plays in the world today.

    Reviews

    'In this theoretically engaging new book, she explores how analysis of a “buffer zone” in northern CAR and its dynamics of raiding and hunting can enrich social science. The book is ethnographically very rich, and presents in an engaging way the vast experience of the author in northern CAR.'

    Valerio Colosio Source: PoLAR Online

    'The book is well written, using the sources that the author has mobilized, which include interviews, observations, archives, and iconographies.'

    Kelma Manatouma Source: African Studies Review

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