Romain Duda
Biographic Data
| ID | 107576 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Romain Duda |
| GIVEN NAMES | Romain |
| FAMILY NAME | Duda |
| SIGNATURE | DUDA R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institut Pasteur |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4858-8942 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 86 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Sustainable education should include Indigenous knowledge
A time of decline
The Central African Republic (CAR) has experienced repeated mpox outbreaks since 2001. Although several mpox epidemiological risk factors for zoonotic and interhuman transmission have been documented, the reasons for more frequent epidemic outbreaks are less well understood, relying on vague explanatory categories, including deforestation, hunting, and civil unrest. To gain insight into increasingly frequent outbreaks, we undertook an ethnohistor…
Retour sur le colloque « L’animal à l’Anthropocène »
Le colloque « L’animal à l’Anthropocène », organisé par le CNRS et le Muséum national d’histoire naturelle, s’est tenu en ligne en décembre 2020. Ce colloque avait pour objectif d’analyser l’évolution des rapports utilitaires et affectifs entre humains et animaux dans le contexte de l’Anthropocène, avec l’ambition de réunir une grande diversité de disciplines. Nous commençons par une synthèse des interventions. Puis nous revenons sur trois aspect…
Congo Basin youth
Les Jeunes du Bassin du Congo
L’éducation des BaYaka
La scolarisation fait partie d’un effort global visant à aider les peuples autochtones à s’adapter aux changements rapides de leur monde social et écologique et à affirmer leurs droits. La question de savoir si la scolarisation répond à ces objectifs fait l’objet d’un débat permanent parmi les anthropologues et les chercheurs en sciences de l’éducation. Nous examinons dans cet article les avantages et les inconvénients de la pédagogie ORA (Observ…
BaYaka education
Schooling is part of a global effort to help Indigenous peoples adapt to their changing social and ecological worlds and assert their human rights. There is ongoing discussion among anthropologists and educational researchers as to whether schooling meets these goals. Here, we examine the harms and benefits of ORA (Observer, Réflechir, Agir), a school system developed to educate BaYaka children from the northern Republic of the Congo. Many BaYaka…
Hunting Otherwise
Le spécimen et le collecteur
Le spécimen et le collecteur se concentre sur la première des étapes propres à toute entreprise naturaliste, celle de la collecte des spécimens. Les auteurs s’attachent à comprendre ses spécificités matérielles, intellectuelles et politiques et à cerner les enjeux de connaissance qui motivent ses protagonistes. Fouler le terrain de la collecte revient à sortir de l’ombre les savoirs et les attentes des informateurs et des intermédiaires locaux. A…
Local Ecological Knowledge Among Baka Children
Childhood is an extensive life period specific to the human species and a key stage for development. Considering the importance of childhood for cultural transmission, we test the existence of a 'children's culture', or child-specific knowledge and practices not necessarily shared with adults, among the Baka in Southeast Cameroon. Using structured questionnaires, we collected data among 69 children and 175 adults to assess the ability to name, id…
Peer Evaluation Can Reliably Measure Local Knowledge
We assess the consistency of measures of individual local ecological knowledge obtained through peer evaluation against three standard measures: identification tasks, structured questionnaires, and self-reported skills questionnaires. We collected ethnographic information among the Baka (Congo), the Punan (Borneo), and the Tsimane' (Amazon) to design site-specific but comparable tasks to measure medicinal plant and hunting knowledge. Scores deriv…
The Adaptive Nature of Culture
Researchers have argued that the behavioral adaptations that explain the success of our species are partially cultural, i.e., cumulative and socially transmitted. Thus, understanding the adaptive nature of culture is crucial to understand human evolution. We use a cross-cultural framework and empirical data purposely collected to test whether culturally transmitted and individually appropriated knowledge provides individual returns in terms of hu…
Children's daily activities and knowledge acquisition
BackgroundThe acquisition of local knowledge occurs through complex interactions between individual and contextual characteristics: as context changes, so it changes the acquisition of knowledge. Contemporary small-scale societies facing rapid social-ecological change provide a unique opportunity to study the relation between social-ecological changes and the process of acquisition of local knowledge. In this work, we study children's involvement…
Children's daily activities and knowledge acquisition
BackgroundThe acquisition of local knowledge occurs through complex interactions between individual and contextual characteristics: as context changes, so it changes the acquisition of knowledge. Contemporary small-scale societies facing rapid social-ecological change provide a unique opportunity to study the relation between social-ecological changes and the process of acquisition of local knowledge. In this work, we study children's involvement…
Local Ecological Knowledge Among Baka Children
Childhood is an extensive life period specific to the human species and a key stage for development. Considering the importance of childhood for cultural transmission, we test the existence of a 'children's culture', or child-specific knowledge and practices not necessarily shared with adults, among the Baka in Southeast Cameroon. Using structured questionnaires, we collected data among 69 children and 175 adults to assess the ability to name, id…
The Adaptive Nature of Culture
Researchers have argued that the behavioral adaptations that explain the success of our species are partially cultural, i.e., cumulative and socially transmitted. Thus, understanding the adaptive nature of culture is crucial to understand human evolution. We use a cross-cultural framework and empirical data purposely collected to test whether culturally transmitted and individually appropriated knowledge provides individual returns in terms of hu…
Hunting Otherwise
Peer Evaluation Can Reliably Measure Local Knowledge
We assess the consistency of measures of individual local ecological knowledge obtained through peer evaluation against three standard measures: identification tasks, structured questionnaires, and self-reported skills questionnaires. We collected ethnographic information among the Baka (Congo), the Punan (Borneo), and the Tsimane' (Amazon) to design site-specific but comparable tasks to measure medicinal plant and hunting knowledge. Scores deriv…
Children's daily activities and knowledge acquisition
BackgroundThe acquisition of local knowledge occurs through complex interactions between individual and contextual characteristics: as context changes, so it changes the acquisition of knowledge. Contemporary small-scale societies facing rapid social-ecological change provide a unique opportunity to study the relation between social-ecological changes and the process of acquisition of local knowledge. In this work, we study children's involvement…
Peer Evaluation Can Reliably Measure Local Knowledge
We assess the consistency of measures of individual local ecological knowledge obtained through peer evaluation against three standard measures: identification tasks, structured questionnaires, and self-reported skills questionnaires. We collected ethnographic information among the Baka (Congo), the Punan (Borneo), and the Tsimane' (Amazon) to design site-specific but comparable tasks to measure medicinal plant and hunting knowledge. Scores deriv…
The Adaptive Nature of Culture
Researchers have argued that the behavioral adaptations that explain the success of our species are partially cultural, i.e., cumulative and socially transmitted. Thus, understanding the adaptive nature of culture is crucial to understand human evolution. We use a cross-cultural framework and empirical data purposely collected to test whether culturally transmitted and individually appropriated knowledge provides individual returns in terms of hu…
Local Ecological Knowledge Among Baka Children
Childhood is an extensive life period specific to the human species and a key stage for development. Considering the importance of childhood for cultural transmission, we test the existence of a 'children's culture', or child-specific knowledge and practices not necessarily shared with adults, among the Baka in Southeast Cameroon. Using structured questionnaires, we collected data among 69 children and 175 adults to assess the ability to name, id…
Le spécimen et le collecteur
Le spécimen et le collecteur se concentre sur la première des étapes propres à toute entreprise naturaliste, celle de la collecte des spécimens. Les auteurs s’attachent à comprendre ses spécificités matérielles, intellectuelles et politiques et à cerner les enjeux de connaissance qui motivent ses protagonistes. Fouler le terrain de la collecte revient à sortir de l’ombre les savoirs et les attentes des informateurs et des intermédiaires locaux. A…
L’éducation des BaYaka
La scolarisation fait partie d’un effort global visant à aider les peuples autochtones à s’adapter aux changements rapides de leur monde social et écologique et à affirmer leurs droits. La question de savoir si la scolarisation répond à ces objectifs fait l’objet d’un débat permanent parmi les anthropologues et les chercheurs en sciences de l’éducation. Nous examinons dans cet article les avantages et les inconvénients de la pédagogie ORA (Observ…
BaYaka education
Schooling is part of a global effort to help Indigenous peoples adapt to their changing social and ecological worlds and assert their human rights. There is ongoing discussion among anthropologists and educational researchers as to whether schooling meets these goals. Here, we examine the harms and benefits of ORA (Observer, Réflechir, Agir), a school system developed to educate BaYaka children from the northern Republic of the Congo. Many BaYaka…
Hunting Otherwise
Retour sur le colloque « L’animal à l’Anthropocène »
Le colloque « L’animal à l’Anthropocène », organisé par le CNRS et le Muséum national d’histoire naturelle, s’est tenu en ligne en décembre 2020. Ce colloque avait pour objectif d’analyser l’évolution des rapports utilitaires et affectifs entre humains et animaux dans le contexte de l’Anthropocène, avec l’ambition de réunir une grande diversité de disciplines. Nous commençons par une synthèse des interventions. Puis nous revenons sur trois aspect…
Congo Basin youth
Les Jeunes du Bassin du Congo
A time of decline
The Central African Republic (CAR) has experienced repeated mpox outbreaks since 2001. Although several mpox epidemiological risk factors for zoonotic and interhuman transmission have been documented, the reasons for more frequent epidemic outbreaks are less well understood, relying on vague explanatory categories, including deforestation, hunting, and civil unrest. To gain insight into increasingly frequent outbreaks, we undertook an ethnohistor…
Sustainable education should include Indigenous knowledge
Geography (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Ecology (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Socioeconomics (4 works) · Biology (3 works) · Primate Behavior and Ecology (3 works) · Social science (3 works) · Subsistence agriculture (3 works)