Donald E Vermeer
Biographic Data
| ID | 200979 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Donald E Vermeer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Donald E |
| FAMILY NAME | Vermeer |
| SIGNATURE | VERMEER D E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Louisiana State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 65 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1966 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Moving through and Passing on
Yaa P. A. Oppong. Moving Through and Passing On: Fulani Mobility, Survival, and Identity in Ghana. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 2002. xiv + 259 pp. Maps. Tables. Figures. Appendixes. Bibliography. Index. Price not reported. Cloth. Yaa Oppong conies to this study with an uncommon set of talents and a background that permits her to ferret out information and insights that often remain hidden in ethnographic investigations. She has c…
Settlement Ecology
What determines agrarian settlement patterns? Glenn Davis Stone addresses this question by analyzing the spatial aspects of agrarian ecology--the relationship between how farmers farm and where they settle--and how farming and settlement change as population density rises. Crosscutting the fields of cultural anthropology, archaeology, geography, and agricultural economics, Settlement Ecology presents a new perspective on the process of agricultur…
Green Development
The West African Sahel
Adapting to Drought
Agricultural Development in the Third World
Touaregs Nigeriens
A Geography of Rural Development in Nigeria
(1982). A Geography of Rural Development in Nigeria. Economic Geography: Vol. 58, No. 1, pp. 92-93
Collision of Climate, Cattle, and Culture in Mauritania during the 1970s
ADVENT of drought in the Sahel of West Africa aroused enormous interest about an area and its people that were little known previously. Much of that interest and the resulting literature attempt to understand causal factors responsible for what has come to be known as desertification.1 To what extent were long-term, climatic changes reflected in the Sahelian drought, or conversely was the drought one of the short-term, recurring events normal to …
Geophagy in a Mississippi County∗
Geophagy (earth eating) is practiced by black women and black children of both sexes, but by few or none of the adult black males in Holmes County, Mississippi. Geophagy does not stem from physiological disorder nor appetite aberration. It appears to be a custom brought by slaves from the Old World. Edible clays are obtained from the B soil horizon. Average daily consumption approximates fifty grams. Some young adult females substitute commercial…
Geophagy among the Ewe of Ghana
African Studies in the United States
Population Pressure and Crop Rotational Changes Among the Tiv of Nigeria
Shifting agriculture and the carrying capacity of the land are critically important in developing tropical areas. Signs of breakdown in shifting agricultural systems, such as decreasing crop yield and soil fertility, have long been recognized. Among the Tiv another indication of breakdown is manifest when proved cropping sequences are deliberately altered. The first dot map of Tiv population depicts high densities in the south-central part of the…
Distribution of African Studies Programs and Africanists in the United States
Chronicles of the African Studies Association and of the development of African studies programs give clear evidence that both have achieved substantive progress after a rather late arrival on the academic scene. At the same time, however, mapping of both programs and Africaniste equally clearly indicates their quite restricted distribution. Consequently the impact of African studies programs and scholarship on our academies and on the wider soci…
Geophagy Among the Tiv of Nigeria
The practice of geophagy, widespread among tropical peoples, has apparently been hitherto unreported among the Tiv of Nigeria. The custom is often recorded simply as a component of a culture, but this study suggests that it has a nutritional role, and that it thus has an origin outside the culture itself. Geophagical clays generally are mined from the B soil horizon. Although used in making pottery and taken as an antidiarrhoetic, they are primar…
Population Pressure and Crop Rotational Changes Among the Tiv of Nigeria
Shifting agriculture and the carrying capacity of the land are critically important in developing tropical areas. Signs of breakdown in shifting agricultural systems, such as decreasing crop yield and soil fertility, have long been recognized. Among the Tiv another indication of breakdown is manifest when proved cropping sequences are deliberately altered. The first dot map of Tiv population depicts high densities in the south-central part of the…
Touaregs Nigeriens
Geophagy Among the Tiv of Nigeria
The practice of geophagy, widespread among tropical peoples, has apparently been hitherto unreported among the Tiv of Nigeria. The custom is often recorded simply as a component of a culture, but this study suggests that it has a nutritional role, and that it thus has an origin outside the culture itself. Geophagical clays generally are mined from the B soil horizon. Although used in making pottery and taken as an antidiarrhoetic, they are primar…
Geophagy among the Ewe of Ghana
Geophagy in a Mississippi County∗
Geophagy (earth eating) is practiced by black women and black children of both sexes, but by few or none of the adult black males in Holmes County, Mississippi. Geophagy does not stem from physiological disorder nor appetite aberration. It appears to be a custom brought by slaves from the Old World. Edible clays are obtained from the B soil horizon. Average daily consumption approximates fifty grams. Some young adult females substitute commercial…
Collision of Climate, Cattle, and Culture in Mauritania during the 1970s
ADVENT of drought in the Sahel of West Africa aroused enormous interest about an area and its people that were little known previously. Much of that interest and the resulting literature attempt to understand causal factors responsible for what has come to be known as desertification.1 To what extent were long-term, climatic changes reflected in the Sahelian drought, or conversely was the drought one of the short-term, recurring events normal to …
Moving through and Passing on
Yaa P. A. Oppong. Moving Through and Passing On: Fulani Mobility, Survival, and Identity in Ghana. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 2002. xiv + 259 pp. Maps. Tables. Figures. Appendixes. Bibliography. Index. Price not reported. Cloth. Yaa Oppong conies to this study with an uncommon set of talents and a background that permits her to ferret out information and insights that often remain hidden in ethnographic investigations. She has c…
Distribution of African Studies Programs and Africanists in the United States
Chronicles of the African Studies Association and of the development of African studies programs give clear evidence that both have achieved substantive progress after a rather late arrival on the academic scene. At the same time, however, mapping of both programs and Africaniste equally clearly indicates their quite restricted distribution. Consequently the impact of African studies programs and scholarship on our academies and on the wider soci…
Geophagy Among the Tiv of Nigeria
The practice of geophagy, widespread among tropical peoples, has apparently been hitherto unreported among the Tiv of Nigeria. The custom is often recorded simply as a component of a culture, but this study suggests that it has a nutritional role, and that it thus has an origin outside the culture itself. Geophagical clays generally are mined from the B soil horizon. Although used in making pottery and taken as an antidiarrhoetic, they are primar…
Distribution of African Studies Programs and Africanists in the United States
Chronicles of the African Studies Association and of the development of African studies programs give clear evidence that both have achieved substantive progress after a rather late arrival on the academic scene. At the same time, however, mapping of both programs and Africaniste equally clearly indicates their quite restricted distribution. Consequently the impact of African studies programs and scholarship on our academies and on the wider soci…
African Studies in the United States
Population Pressure and Crop Rotational Changes Among the Tiv of Nigeria
Shifting agriculture and the carrying capacity of the land are critically important in developing tropical areas. Signs of breakdown in shifting agricultural systems, such as decreasing crop yield and soil fertility, have long been recognized. Among the Tiv another indication of breakdown is manifest when proved cropping sequences are deliberately altered. The first dot map of Tiv population depicts high densities in the south-central part of the…
Geophagy among the Ewe of Ghana
Geophagy in a Mississippi County∗
Geophagy (earth eating) is practiced by black women and black children of both sexes, but by few or none of the adult black males in Holmes County, Mississippi. Geophagy does not stem from physiological disorder nor appetite aberration. It appears to be a custom brought by slaves from the Old World. Edible clays are obtained from the B soil horizon. Average daily consumption approximates fifty grams. Some young adult females substitute commercial…
Collision of Climate, Cattle, and Culture in Mauritania during the 1970s
ADVENT of drought in the Sahel of West Africa aroused enormous interest about an area and its people that were little known previously. Much of that interest and the resulting literature attempt to understand causal factors responsible for what has come to be known as desertification.1 To what extent were long-term, climatic changes reflected in the Sahelian drought, or conversely was the drought one of the short-term, recurring events normal to …
A Geography of Rural Development in Nigeria
(1982). A Geography of Rural Development in Nigeria. Economic Geography: Vol. 58, No. 1, pp. 92-93
Touaregs Nigeriens
Agricultural Development in the Third World
The West African Sahel
Adapting to Drought
Green Development
Settlement Ecology
What determines agrarian settlement patterns? Glenn Davis Stone addresses this question by analyzing the spatial aspects of agrarian ecology--the relationship between how farmers farm and where they settle--and how farming and settlement change as population density rises. Crosscutting the fields of cultural anthropology, archaeology, geography, and agricultural economics, Settlement Ecology presents a new perspective on the process of agricultur…
Moving through and Passing on
Yaa P. A. Oppong. Moving Through and Passing On: Fulani Mobility, Survival, and Identity in Ghana. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 2002. xiv + 259 pp. Maps. Tables. Figures. Appendixes. Bibliography. Index. Price not reported. Cloth. Yaa Oppong conies to this study with an uncommon set of talents and a background that permits her to ferret out information and insights that often remain hidden in ethnographic investigations. She has c…
Geography (12 works) · Economics (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Agriculture and Rural Development Research (6 works) · Biology (5 works) · Socioeconomics (5 works) · Ecology (4 works) · Ecology (4 works) · Agriculture (3 works) · Archaeology (3 works)