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Chronique de Guinée (1453)
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ISBN: 290646208X 9782906462083 Year: 1994 Volume: *4 Publisher: Paris Chandeigne

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Misreading the African landscape : society and ecology in a forest-savanna mosaic
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ISBN: 0521564999 0521563534 9780521564991 9780521563536 9781139164023 0511089716 1139164023 Year: 1996 Volume: 90 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Islands of dense forest in the savanna of 'forest' Guinea have long been regarded both by scientists and policy-makers as the last relics of a once more extensive forest cover, degraded and degrading fast due to its inhabitants' land use. In this 1996 text, James Fairhead and Melissa Leach question these entrenched assumptions. They show, on the contrary, how people have created forest islands around their villages, and how they have turned fallow vegetation more woody, so that population growth has implied more forest, not less. They also consider the origins, persistence, and consequences of a century of erroneous policy. Interweaving historical, social anthropological and ecological data, this fascinating study advances a novel theoretical framework for ecological anthropology, encouraging a radical re-examination of some central tenets in each of these disciplines.

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Environmental policy --- Forest ecology --- Human ecology --- Landscape assessment --- Savanna ecology --- Environmental Sciences and Forestry. Forestry --- Forest Ecology --- Ecology of Tropical Forests. --- Ecologie forestière --- Ecologie des savanes --- Kissidougou (Guinea : Region) --- Kissidougou (Guinée : Région administrative) --- Kissidougou (Guinée : Région administrative) --- #SBIB:39A4 --- #SBIB:39A73 --- Savannas --- Ecology --- Assessment, Landscape --- Environmental perception --- Landscape evaluation --- Landscape perception --- Perception, Landscape --- Land use --- Landscape protection --- Environment, Human --- Human beings --- Human environment --- Ecological engineering --- Human geography --- Nature --- Forests and forestry --- Environment and state --- Environmental control --- Environmental management --- Environmental protection --- Environmental quality --- State and environment --- Environmental auditing --- Toegepaste antropologie --- Etnografie: Afrika --- Social aspects --- Effect of environment on --- Effect of human beings on --- Government policy --- Environmental conditions. --- Sociology of environment --- Human ecology. Social biology --- Guinea --- Environnement --- Ecologie forestière --- Ecologie humaine --- Paysages --- Politique gouvernementale --- Evaluation --- Environmental conditions --- Aspect de l'environnement --- Forest ecosystems --- Social Sciences --- Anthropology --- Human ecology - Guinea - Kissidougou (Region) --- Landscape assessment - Guinea - Kissidougou (Region) --- Forest ecology - Guinea - Kissidougou (Region) --- Savanna ecology - Guinea - Kissidougou (Region) --- Environmental policy - Guinea - Kissidougou (Region)


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Our new husbands are here : households, gender, and politics in a West African state from the slave trade to colonial rule
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ISBN: 9780821419830 0821419838 9780821443972 0821443976 0821419668 Year: 2011 Publisher: Athens : Ohio University Press,

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In Our New Husbands Are Here, Emily Lynn Osborn investigates a central puzzle of power and politics in West African history: Why do women figure frequently in the political narratives of the precolonial period, and then vanish altogether with colonization? Osborn addresses this question by exploring the relationship of the household to the state. By analyzing the history of statecraft in the interior savannas of West Africa (in present-day Guinea-Conakry), Osborn shows that the household, and women within it, played a critical role in the pacifist Islamic state of Kankan-Baté, enabling it to

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Mandingo (African people) --- Households --- Women --- Mandingue (Peuple d'Afrique) --- Ménages (Statistique) --- Femmes --- History --- Social conditions --- Histoire --- Conditions sociales --- Samory, --- Kankan (Guinea : Region) --- Guinea --- France --- Kankan (Guinée : Région administrative) --- Guinée --- Colonization --- Social aspects --- Colonies --- Administration. --- Colonisation --- Aspect social --- Administration --- France -- Colonies -- Africa -- Administration. --- Guinea -- Colonization -- Social aspects. --- Households -- Political aspects -- Guinea -- Kankan (Region). --- Kankan (Guinea : Region) -- History. --- Kankan (Guinea : Region) -- Politics and government. --- Mandingo (African people) -- Guinea -- Kankan (Region) -- History. --- Samory, approximately 1830-1900. --- Women -- Guinea -- Kankan (Region) -- Social conditions. --- History & Archaeology --- Regions & Countries - Africa --- Political aspects --- History. --- Social conditions. --- Politics and government. --- Social aspects. --- Ménages (Statistique) --- Kankan (Guinée : Région administrative) --- Guinée --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Malinke (African people) --- Mandé (African people) --- Manding (African people) --- Mandingue (African people) --- Mandinka (African people) --- Mandino (African people) --- Maninka (African people) --- Maninkaalu (African people) --- Soce (African people) --- Sosse (African people) --- Samodu, --- Samori Touré, --- Samory Touré, --- Touré, Samory, --- Pʻŭrangsŭ --- Frankrig --- Francja --- Frant︠s︡ii︠a︡ --- Prantsusmaa --- Francia (Republic) --- Tsarfat --- Tsorfat --- Franḳraykh --- Frankreich --- Fa-kuo --- Faguo --- Франция --- French Republic --- République française --- Peurancih --- Frankryk --- Franse Republiek --- Francland --- Frencisc Cynewīse --- فرنسا --- Faransā --- Franza --- Republica Franzesa --- Gallia (Republic) --- Hyãsia --- Phransiya --- Fransa --- Fransa Respublikası --- Franse --- Францыя --- Frantsyi︠a︡ --- Французская Рэспубліка --- Frantsuzskai︠a︡ Rėspublika --- Parancis --- Pransya --- Franis --- Francuska --- Republika Francuska --- Bro-C'hall --- Френска република --- Frenska republika --- França --- República Francesa --- Pransiya --- Republikang Pranses --- Γαλλία --- Gallia --- Γαλλική Δημοκρατία --- Gallikē Dēmokratia --- فرانسه --- Farānsah --- צרפת --- רפובליקה הצרפתית --- Republiḳah ha-Tsarfatit --- פראנקרייך --- 法国 --- 法蘭西共和國 --- Falanxi Gongheguo --- フランス --- Furansu --- フランス共和国 --- Furansu Kyōwakoku --- Francija --- République de Guinée --- Gvineĭskai︠a︡ Respublika --- Gvinei︠a︡ --- République populaire révolutionnaire de Guinée --- Republic of Guinea --- Gvineja --- Ranska --- Frankrike --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Population --- Families --- Home economics --- Ethnology --- France (Provisional government, 1944-1946) --- ギニア --- Ginia --- Гвинея --- French Guinea --- 프랑스 --- Falanxi --- Fa-lan-hsi --- 法蘭西 --- Frankrijk --- Frant︠s︡ --- Франц --- Frant︠s︡ Uls --- Франц Улс

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