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Author Harms, Robert W., 1946-

Title Games against nature : an eco-cultural history of the Nunu of equatorial Africa / Robert Harms
Published Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1987

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 W'PONDS  967.24 Har/Gan  AVAILABLE
Description xi, 276 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Series Studies in environment and history
ACLS Humanities E-Book (Series)
Studies in environment and history.
Contents Machine derived contents note: 1. Introduction -- 2. The antecedents -- 3. The tactics -- 4 -- The strategies -- 5. The Drylands -- 6. The river -- 7. The core -- 8. The region -- 9. The traders -- 10. The troubles -- 11. The opportunities -- 12. The battle -- 13. Conclusion: nature and culture
Summary Africa's equatorial rain forests cover an area roughly the size of continental Western Europe, and yet the history of this area remains largely unexplored. Robert Harms makes an important advance in this book toward recovering that history by telling the story of the Nunu, who live in and around the swampy floodplains of the middle Zaire River. A key element in Nunu history has been the small-scale, short-distance migrations that continually led individuals and groups into new micro-environments. When an increasing population impinged upon the limits of available resources in the late eighteenth century, a crisis characterized by drastic change and incessant conflict ensued. The Nunu abandoned their ancestral estates to take up new forms of competition in river towns, causing a conflict of identity which culminated in civil war in the 1960s
Analysis Africa Tropical regions Environment Adaptation of Nunu, 1700-1986 - Anthropological perspectives
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 259-265
Notes English
Subject Human ecology -- Congo (Brazzaville)
Human ecology -- Congo (Democratic Republic)
Nunu (African people)
Author American Council of Learned Societies.
LC no. 87011749
ISBN 0521343739
OTHER TI ACLS Humanities E-Book (Series) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2012023082