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 ...
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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.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. > Edition/Printing: First edition / 1st Printing | 276 pp. Year 1988. Book is in Like New condition. > DJ Very Good, May have wear at corners and edges. Curling to edges. Darkening along spine and edges. | > Language: English | > Size: 8vo-over 7 3/4-9 3/4 tall | > Media/Binding: Hardcover |
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Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Dust jacket has slight edgewear, no other defects, now protected by clear mylar sleeve. Book has no defects; pages are clean and crisp, the binding is tight and square; book appears unread. Studies in Environment and History Series. 8vo 8"-9" tall. 288 pages. D4.
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11+276 pages, index, bibliography, maps: an eco-cultural history of the NUNU of Equatorial Africa, they live in the swampy floodplains of the middle of the Zaire River; hardback vg vg dw.
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Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Dust jacket has slight edgewear, no other defects, now protected by clear mylar sleeve. Book has no defects; pages are clean and crisp, the binding is tight and square; book appears unread. Studies in Environment and History Series. 8vo 8"-9" tall. 288 pages. D3.
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