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

Download or read book Biltong Hunting as a Performance of Belonging in Post-Apartheid South Africa written by Andre Goodrich and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2015-03-18 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.