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Des Taurins et des Hommes: Cameroun, Nigeria
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ISBN: 2709914190 2709917920 Year: 1998 Publisher: IRD Éditions

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Au Cameroun et au Nigeria, les taurins - petits bovins sans bosse - sont très minoritaires par rapport aux zébus. Ils présentent pourtant l'avantage d'être mieux adaptés au milieu : résistants à la mouche tsé-tsé, ils pourraient aider à la mise en valeur des zones infestées et ils apparaissent dans certaines régions humides comme les seuls bovins aptes à favoriser l'inter-pénétration de l'agriculture et de l'élevage. Mais la relance de ces élevages, tant au Cameroun qu'au Nigeria, a toujours posé problème : l'imbrication du social, du religieux et du politique dont ils sont porteurs en fait des élevages archaïques, difficilement récupérables par les sociétés villageoises poraines, contemet donc en voie d'extinction. La « laïcisation » du taurin et son introduction dans une économie de marché restent à faire. Cet ouvrage réunit des géographes, ethnologues, anthropologues, vétérinaires-zootechniciens. Il contribue à une meilleure compréhension du fonctionnement social des élevages, et apporte une description précise de ces animaux et de leur portement com: deux préalables nécessaires à l'identification de « nouveaux types d'éleveurs » et à la mise en oeuvre de nouvelles pratiques zootechniques et sociales. In Cameroon and Nigeria, taurines — small humpless cattle —form a minority in comparison with zebu. Nevertheless, they are better suited to the environment. Taurines (Bos taurus) are resistant to tsetse fly and could help in the farming of infested zones and are the only cattle that can be reared in combination with arable farming in certain wet régions. However, relaunching taurine rearing in both Cameroon and Nigeria has always been a problem. The overlapping of the social, religious and political spheres in which they are involved means that rearing is archaic, difficult to adopt by contemporary village societies and is therefore disappearing. The taurine remains to be rendered 'seculaf and incorporated in a market economy. Geographers, ethnologists,…


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Explaining and exploring diversity in agricultural technology
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ISBN: 1782970215 1782970231 9781782970217 9781782970224 1782970223 9781782970231 9781842175156 Year: 2014 Publisher: Philadelphia Oxbow Books

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"This volume is the outcome of collaborative European research among archaeologists, archaeobotanists, ethnographers, historians and agronomists, and frequently uses experiments in archaeology. It aims to establish new common ground for integrating different approaches and for viewing agriculture from the standpoint of the human actors involved. Each chapter provides an interdisciplinary overview of the skills used and the social context of the pursuit of agriculture, highlighting examples of tools, technologies and processes from land clearance to cereal processing and food preparation"--

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Agriculture --- Agricultural innovations --- Agricultural implements --- Agropastoral systems --- Social change --- Ethnology. --- Agriculture, Prehistoric. --- Ethnoarchaelogy. --- Landscape archaelogy. --- Prehistoric agriculture --- Prehistoric peoples --- Cultural anthropology --- Ethnography --- Races of man --- Social anthropology --- Anthropology --- Human beings --- Integrated agricultural systems --- Agricultural tools --- Farm implements --- Farm tools --- Agricultural machinery --- Farm equipment --- Implements, utensils, etc. --- Tools --- Innovations, Agricultural --- Technological change in agriculture --- Technological innovations --- Farming --- Husbandry --- Industrial arts --- Life sciences --- Food supply --- Land use, Rural --- History. --- Social aspects --- Food --- Equipment and supplies --- Innovations --- Technology transfer --- Ethnology --- Agriculture, Prehistoric --- Ethnoarchaeology --- Landscape archaeology --- Archaeology --- Cultural landscapes --- Ethnic archaeology --- Ethnicity in archaeology --- Ethnology in archaeology --- Social archaeology --- History --- Social aspects&delete& --- Methodology --- Ethnoarchaeology. --- Landscape archaeology. --- Changement social --- Ethnologie. --- Agriculture préhistorique. --- Ethnoarchéologie. --- Archéologie du paysage. --- Histoire. --- Aspect social --- Innovations technologiques --- Outillage --- Agricultural innovations. --- Agricultural implements. --- Agropastoral systems. --- Social aspects. --- Agriculture préhistorique. --- Ethnoarchéologie. --- Archéologie du paysage.

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