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Researchers have analysed whether school and local knowledge complement or substitute each other, but have paid less attention to whether those two learning models use different cognitive strategies. In this study, we use data collected... more
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      Memory Studies, Cultural Anthropology, Local Knowledge, Pygmies
Background: The 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... more
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      Cultural Transmission (Evolutionary Biology), Anthropology of Children and Childhood, Local Knowledge, Pygmies
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      Social Research Methods and Methodology, Local Ecological Knowledge
For long, the importance of fishing for forest societies has been hiding behind the term “hunter-gatherers”. Whereas the importance of hunting is commonly recognized among such societies, some research has also highlighted that fishing is... more
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      Hunter-Gatherers (Anthropology), Ethnoecology, Cultural Transmission, Baka Pygmies in Cameroon
In: Juhé-Beaulaton (Dominique) & Leblan (Vincent) (sous la dir.), Le spécimen et le collecteur : savoirs naturalistes, pouvoirs et altérités (xviiie-xxe siècles), Paris : Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, 2018, 509 p. (Archives ; 27).
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      Biological Anthropology, History of Science, History of Anthropology, Race and Ethnicity
In the Congo Basin, food is an everyday concern and its acquisition and transformation often structure many of the activities of a human group. While agriculture provides the main source of calories, meat of wild animals, commonly... more
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      Cameroon, Ethnozoology, Wildlife Conservation, Hunting (Human Animal Relations)
L’écosystème forestier du bassin du Congo, lieu de vie des populations dites « Pygmées », est depuis plusieurs décennies sujet à des perturbations environnementales sans précédent. Toutefois, le constat alarmant du déclin de la faune... more
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      Indigenous Studies, Cameroon, Indigenous Peoples, Wildlife Conservation
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Je présente ici le contexte qui informe mes problématiques de recherche, le cadre théorique et quelques résultats préliminaires de ce qui finira par être 18 mois de recherches ethnographiques dans les provinces de Bandundu et d'Equateur... more
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The Congo Research Network is currently organising its third conference in collaboration with the African Studies Centre at the University of Cambridge, UK. 11 June 12 June 14:00-18:00 09:00-17:00 KEYNOTE 6pm 11... more
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      African Studies, Peace and Conflict Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Political Ecology
This paper is based on 12 months of ethnographic fieldwork in Equateur Province, where, following the Congo Wars (1996-2003), there has been an influx of international environmental NGOs. Local pressures on the forest, including the... more
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      Social Anthropology, Political Ecology, Environmental Anthropology, Anthropology of Development
Many secular NGOs in the Democratic Republic of Congo produce policy 'mission statements' and speak of their staff going 'on mission' when they enter the interior of the country to develop community projects. Based on 18 months of... more
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      Environmental Anthropology, Democratic Republic of Congo, Catholic and Protestant Missionaries in Subsaharan Africa
This paper is grounded in 18 months of ethnographic fieldwork in scientific communities studying free-ranging bonobos (Pan paniscus; the great ape which, along with the chimpanzee, is the closest genetic relative of Homo sapiens), and in... more
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      African Studies, Development Studies, Environmental Anthropology, Neoliberalism