Games against nature : an eco-cultural history of the Nunu of equatorial Africa
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Games against nature : an eco-cultural history of the Nunu of equatorial Africa
（Studies in environment and history）
Cambridge University Press, 1999
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"First published 1987. First paperback edition 1999"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-265) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The antecedents
- 3. The tactics
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- 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.
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