Research Catalog

Title

Environmental and cultural dynamics in the West African savanna : proceedings of the international conference Maiduguri, 4-8 March 2002 / Heinrich Thiemeyer, Gisela Seidensticker-Brikay & Kyari Tijani (eds.) ; with a foreword by Peter Breunig.

Publication

Köln : Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 2020.

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Additional Authors

• Thiemeyer, Heinrich
• Seidensticker-Brikay, Gisela
• Tijani, Kyari, 1942-2011
• Breunig, Peter

Description

356 pages : many illustrations (partly color), maps; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Westafrikanische Studien ; Band 41

Uniform Title

Westafrikanische Studien ; Bd. 41.

Subject

• Savannas > Africa, West > Congresses
• Savannas > Environmental aspects > Africa, West > Congresses
• Antiquities
• Climatology
• Savannas
• Africa, West > History > Congresses
• Chad Basin > Antiquities > Congresses
• Chad Basin > Climate > Congresses
• Africa > Chad Basin
• West Africa

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings.
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Foreword -- Editors' Note -- Introductory Papers -- Defining the state border in the lacustrine area of the Chad Basin / Kyari Tijani -- Northeastern Nigeria : a unique linguistic laboratory / Herrmann Jungraithmayr with Rudolf Leger -- Prehistory in the Chad Basin -- Historical archaeology in the Chad Basin : Past achievements and future prospects / Detlef Gronenborn -- New data and insights into the Late Stone Age colonization of the southwest Chad Basin after the desiccation of the Sahara / Musa Oluwaseyi Hambolu -- Late Stone Age and Iron Age settlement mounds in the firki plains south of Lake Chad / Birgitt Wiesmüller -- Ancient metallurgy in north Cameroon : Technication rationalities : social context : magical and religious practices in iron production : A case study of Dii people in Adamaoua Province / Bienvenu Denis Nizésété -- The Chad Basin as Human Meeting Point in History -- Man and environment in Bornu : A historical account / Kyari Mohammed -- Towards the dating of a migratory pattern in the Chad Basin : A case study of the Bolewa Fikka migration / Ibrahim Maina Waziri -- Migration and culture contact in the Gongola Basin / Saliba B. James -- The impact of environmental variables on the trade in hides and skins in colonial Borno (ca. 1902-1960) / Yakubu Mukhtar and Alhaji Umar Bako -- The colonial subjugation of the Muri Mountains and adjacent regions in northern Nigeria : A preliminary account / Jörg Adelberger -- Environmental Dynamics and Language -- From the legendary Sau : The existence of Chadic traits among the Kanuri / Umara Bulakarima -- Jarawan Bantu expansion from the eastern Upper Benue Basin, ca. 1700-1750 / Eldridge Mohammadou -- The variety of West Hausa in the multilingual environment of Gashua / Ahmed Tela Baba -- Society and Politics in the Chad Basin -- Attempts at community formation : The Igbo at Lake Chad / Bärbel Freyer -- The Lake Chad Basin Commission in West and Central African political culture / Martin Zachary Njeuma -- Cultural Dynamism, Language, Literature -- Kanuri oral literature and its regional and world literary interconnectedness in cultural-historical perspective / Thomas Geider -- Environmental Changes, Water and Landmass -- Holocene fluvial dynamics and sediment sequences of the Komadugu Yobe and Gana river system, NE Nigeria / Heinrich Thiemeyer and Maren Gumnior -- The morphology of the Ngadda Basin in Borno State, NE Nigeria / Jacob K. Nyanganji -- Effects of Alao Dam on some socio-economic activities of women in Jere Bowl (downstream of River Ngadda), NE Nigeria / Abba Kagu and Yagana Muhammad Aji -- Climatic Change, Dynamics of Land Use and Agricultural Adaptation -- Physical conditions and socio-economic and cultural mutation in the Chad plain in extreme north Cameroon / Anselme Wakponou -- Indicators of the Adamaoua Plateau (Cameroon) landscape dynamics / Michel Tchotsoua and lya Moussa -- Agrarian resource use by Kanuri and Shuwa Arab peoples in the Kala-Balge region, NE Nigeria : Perspectives of traditional field system management / W. Paul Adderley, Holger Kirscht, Ian A. Simpson, and Mohammed Adam -- The Nigerian Savanna : Gombe and Adamaoua -- The Nigerian savanna : Gombe and Adamaoua : signs of an unbalanced development / Werner Fricke -- Achievements and problems in the evolution of urban centres in the Nigerian savanna : Case study of Gombe / Heiko Balzerek -- From world market back to internal markets : Dynamics of agriculture in the hinterland of Gombe and rural areas in southern Nigeria / Gilbert Malchau.

Call Number

ReCAP 21-6165

ISBN

• 9783896454782
• 3896454781

OCLC

1237996870

Title

Environmental and cultural dynamics in the West African savanna : proceedings of the international conference Maiduguri, 4-8 March 2002 / Heinrich Thiemeyer, Gisela Seidensticker-Brikay & Kyari Tijani (eds.) ; with a foreword by Peter Breunig.

Publisher

Köln : Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 2020.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Westafrikanische Studien ; Band 41

Westafrikanische Studien ; Bd. 41.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Thiemeyer, Heinrich, editor.

Seidensticker-Brikay, Gisela, editor.

Tijani, Kyari, 1942-2011, editor.

Breunig, Peter, writer of foreword.

Research Call Number

ReCAP 21-6165