The Dynamics of the Relationship between Shifting Cultivators and Hunter-gatherers along the Motaba of Northern Congo

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ID20148943
AuthorsRosei HANAWA (Doshisha University, corresponding author)
Year2004
Volume2004
Issue64
Pages19-42
Publication date2004-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of African Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0065-4140 • E-ISSN: 1884-5533
PublisherJapan Association for African Studies (PUBLISHER • JP)
DOI10.11619/africa1964.2004.19
OpenAlexW2047482578
LanguageEN
References cited8

In the tropical rainforest of northern part of Republic of Congo, there live the Western Bantu groups engaging in both shifting cultivation and fresh water fishing. Since their historical arrival into the tropical rain forest by so-called "Bantu expansion", through continuous migrations and distributions, they have completed original societies and original cultures adapted to the forest environment of this area. Their "symbiotic relationship" with "Pygmy" hunter-gatherers in the neighborhood is especially an indispensable element to understand not only the social system of this area but also culture of central part of Africa with various ethnic groups.Though many precedent researches have been conducted about this interesting theme, most of them have analysed it from the hunter-gatherers' side and also have tended to draw the relationship from the static view point. In this paper, unlike the conventional researches, the author tried to describe the relationship between Sangha shifting cultivators and Aka hunter-gatherers dynamically by setting analytic emphasis on socio-political system and practice of shifting cultivators. After clarifying the quality of inequality in cultivators' society and discussing their social unit called "house", the author tried to drew their indigenous relationship with the Aka as the process of negotiations between them in the context of the house

AKA · Archaeology · Bantu languages · Context (archaeology) · Ethnic group · Ethnology · Frontier · Geography · Indigenous · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Theme (computing) · African Studies and Ethnography · Agriculture and Rural Development Research · Anthropology · Ecology · Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology

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