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

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.

Andre Goodrich is senior lecturer in social anthropology at the North-West University in South Africa.

Dedication
Introduction
Chapter 1The Biltong Hunting Landscape: How the Haunting of Hunting Repositions 'Nature'
Chapter 2 The Specter's Space: Imperialism, Nationalism and the Spatiality of Capitalist Nature
Chapter 3Violent Desire and Intimate Invisibility: How the Reciprocity of Structured Competitive Play Becomes the Hunting Nature Object-World
Chapter 4 Unlevelling the Playing Field; Unbalancing the Reciprocity: Preparing the Nature Object-World in the Commercial Hunting Context
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