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Games against Nature: An Eco-Cultural History of the Nunu of Equatorial Africa

By Robert Harms

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1999
ISBN
9780511584107, 0521655358, 0521343739, 0511584105, 9780521343732, 9780521655354
LCC
DS650.N9
Open Library ID
OL22646314M
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
2 MB (2602139 bytes)
Series
Studies in Environment and History
Pages
294\294
Topic
History
DPI
600
Time added
2011-04-20 14:05:05

Description

In this book, Robert Harms makes an important advance toward recovering the history of the people of the rain forest by telling the story of the Nunu, who live in and around swampy floodplains of the middle Zaire River. Using concepts drawn from game theory, Professor Harms explores the changing relationship between nature and culture among the Nunu. Picturing Nunu society as animated by a never-ending competition among lineages and households, he traces how the competition pushed people into new environments, and how adaption to the new environment, in turn, led to new forms of competition.

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