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Cape Verde : Crioulo colony to independent nation
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ISBN: 0813384516 0813335620 9780813335629 9780813384511 Year: 1995 Volume: *1 Publisher: Boulder ; San Francisco ; Oxford Westview Press

Ethiopia : traditions of creativity.
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ISBN: 029597740X Year: 1999 Publisher: Lansing Michigan state university press

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Shady Practices : agroforestry and gender politics in the Gambia.
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ISBN: 0520216873 0520222334 9786612355042 0520924479 128235504X 058528895X 9780520924475 9780585288956 9780520216877 9780520222335 Year: 1999 Publisher: Berkeley University of California press

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Shady Practices is a revealing analysis of the gendered political ecology brought about by conflicting local interests and changing developmental initiatives in a West African village. Between 1975 and 1985, while much of Africa suffered devastating drought conditions, Gambian women farmers succeeded in establishing hundreds of lucrative communal market gardens. In less than a decade, the women's incomes began outstripping their husbands' in many areas, until a shift in development policy away from gender equity and toward environmental concerns threatened to do away with the social and economic gains of the garden boom. Male landholders joined forestry personnel in attempts to displace the gardens and capture women's labor for the irrigation of male-controlled tree crops.This carefully documented microhistory draws on field experience spanning more than two decades and the insights of disciplines ranging from critical human geography to development studies. Schroeder combines the "success story" of the market gardens with a cautionary tale about the aggressive pursuit of natural resource management objectives, however well intentioned. He shows that questions of power and social justice at the community level need to enter the debates of policymakers and specialists in environment and development planning.

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Gambia. --- Mandingo (African people)-- Agriculture. --- Patriarchy. --- Mandingo (African people) --- Women, Mandingo --- Agriculture. --- Economic conditions. --- Mandingo women --- Women, Mandingo (African people) --- Malinke (African people) --- Mandé (African people) --- Manding (African people) --- Mandingue (African people) --- Mandinka (African people) --- Mandino (African people) --- Maninka (African people) --- Maninkaalu (African people) --- Soce (African people) --- Sosse (African people) --- Ethnology --- Agroforestry --- Division of labor --- Forest ecology --- Patriarchy --- Sex role --- Gender role --- Sex (Psychology) --- Sex differences (Psychology) --- Social role --- Gender expression --- Sexism --- Androcracy --- Patriarchal families --- Fathers --- Families --- Male domination (Social structure) --- Patrilineal kinship --- Forests and forestry --- Ecology --- Labor, Division of --- Labor --- Economic specialization --- Agro-forestry --- Agriculture --- Tree crops --- Social conditions --- Political aspects --- Economic conditions --- Alkalikunda (Gambia) --- Social life and customs. --- Forest ecosystems --- Gender roles --- Gendered role --- Gendered roles --- Role, Gender --- Role, Gendered --- Role, Sex --- Roles, Gender --- Roles, Gendered --- Roles, Sex --- Sex roles --- 1970s. --- 1980s. --- academic. --- community. --- crops. --- cultural studies. --- drought. --- economics. --- economy. --- environmental. --- environmentalist. --- farmers. --- farming. --- female farmers. --- forestry. --- gambia. --- gardening. --- gender politics. --- gender roles. --- gender studies. --- geography. --- human development. --- irrigation. --- landowners. --- microhistory. --- natural disaster. --- political. --- politics. --- scholarly. --- small town. --- social justice. --- village. --- west africa. --- womens labor. --- working women. --- world history.

The clay sleeps
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ISBN: 0585332746 9780585332741 0817301933 9780817301934 Year: 1985 Publisher: University, Ala. University of Alabama Press


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Explorations in ethnoarchaeology
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ISBN: 0826304540 0826304621 Year: 1978 Publisher: Albuquerque University of New Mexico press

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Dry storeroom no. 1 : the secret life of the Natural History Museum.
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ISBN: 0307263622 9780307263629 Year: 2008 Publisher: New York Alfred A. Knopf

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In an elegant and illuminating narrative, Fortey acquaints the reader with the extraordinary people, meticulous research and driving passions that helped to create the timeless experiences of wonder that fill London's Natural History Museum. And with the museum's hallways and collection rooms providing a dazzling framework, Fortey offers an often eye-opening social history of the scientific accomplishments of the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries.--From publisher description.


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A typology of locative structures in Manding languages.
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Year: 1972 Publisher: London School of oriental and African Studies

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Man and nature : an anthropological essay in human ecology.
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ISBN: 0155547259 9780155547254 Year: 1969 Publisher: New York (N.Y.) Harcourt, Brace and World

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Modern material culture : the archaeology of us
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ISBN: 0122935802 1483299201 Year: 1981 Publisher: New York Academic Press

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