Forests of Belonging
Identities, Ethnicities, and Stereotypes in the Congo River Basin
Forests of Belonging examines the history and ongoing transformation of ethnic and social relationships among four distinct communities--Bangando, Baka, Bakwéle, and Mbomam--in the Lobéké forest region of southeastern Cameroon. By slotting forest communities into ecological categories such as hunters and gatherers, previous analyses of social relationships in tropical forests have resulted in binary frameworks that render real-life relationships invisible and that have perpetuated correspondingly misleading labels, such as pygmy. Through rich descriptive detail resulting from field work among the Bangando, Stephanie Rupp illustrates the compl…
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- ISBN: 978-0-295-80302-9
- EAN: 9780295803029
- Produktnummer: 20513962
- Verlag: University of Washington Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 304 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 5'723 KB
- Abbildungen: 20 illus., 7 maps
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Stephanie Rupp
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