Beyond ritual and economics: Maasai lion hunting and conservation politics

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Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 490-500

  Goldman, Mara J ^a   De Pinho, Joana Roque ^b,c   Perry, Jennifer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^c Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Conservation politics; ethnography; Kenya; lion; Maasai; Panthera leo; Tanzania

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION PLANNING; CULTURAL TRADITION; ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS; FELID; HUNTING; LIVESTOCK; POPULATION DECLINE; PREDATION; PROTECTED AREA; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SURVIVAL;

KENYA; TANZANIA;

EID: 84884996699     PISSN: 00306053     EISSN: 13653008     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0030605312000907     Document Type: Article

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