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Title The Ecology of survival : case studies from northeast African history / edited by Douglas H. Johnson and David M. Anderson
Published London, England : L. Crook Academic Pub. ; Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1988

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Description xii, 339 pages : maps ; 23 cm
Contents Introduction : ecology and society in northeast African history / David M. Anderson and Douglas H. Johnson -- Human adaptation and long-term climatic change in northeast Africa : an archaeological perspective / John A.J. Gowlett -- Great drought and famine of 1888-92 in northeast Africa / Richard Pankhurst and Douglas H. Johnson -- Emutai : crisis and response in Maasailand 1883-1902 / Richard Waller -- Primary export crop production and the origins of the ecological crisis in Kordofan : the case of Dar Hamar / Mustafa Babiker Ahmed -- Cultivation as a long-term strategy of survival : the Berti of Darfur / Ladislav Holy -- Traders, farmers and pastoralists : economic adaptations and environmental problems in the southern Nuba mountains of the Sudan / Leif O. Manger -- Adaptation to floods in the Jonglei area of the Sudan : an historical analysis / Douglas H. Johnson -- Prelude to disaster : the case of Karamoja / Beverley Gartrell -- Pastoralist migration and colonial policy : a case study from northern Kenya / Neal W. Sobania -- Cultivating pastoralists : ecology and economy among the Il Chamus of Baringo, 1840-1980 / David M. Anderson -- Looking for a cool place : the Mursi, 1890s to 1980s / David Turton -- History, drought and reproduction : dynamics of society and ecology in northeast Ethiopia / James McCann
Analysis North-east Africa Rural communities Survival, history. Ecological aspects
North-east Africa. Rural communities. Survival,. history Ecological aspects
Notes Includes index
This book is the product of 2 meetings: the 1st was held July 8, 1985 at Wolfson College and sponsored by the Oxford University Inter-faculty Committee for African Studies; the 2nd met at the Institute of Social Anthropology on July 7-8, 1986
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 305-322
Includes index
Subject Famines -- Africa, Northeast.
Human ecology -- Africa, Northeast.
SUBJECT Africa, Northeast http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001645 -- Rural conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00007670
Africa, Northeast http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001645 -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Author Anderson, David, 1957-
Johnson, Douglas H. (Douglas Hamilton), 1949-
University of Oxford. Inter-faculty Committee on African Studies.
LC no. 88005475
ISBN 0813307279 (Westview)
1870915003