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 |
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North-east Africa. Rural communities. Survival,. history Ecological aspects |
Notes |
Includes index |
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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 |
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Includes index |
Subject |
Famines -- Africa, Northeast.
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Human ecology -- Africa, Northeast.
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SUBJECT |
Africa, Northeast http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001645 -- Rural conditions.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00007670
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Africa, Northeast http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001645 -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024
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Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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Author |
Anderson, David, 1957-
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Johnson, Douglas H. (Douglas Hamilton), 1949-
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University of Oxford. Inter-faculty Committee on African Studies.
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LC no. |
88005475 |
ISBN |
0813307279 (Westview) |
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1870915003 |
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