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

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

Harms, Robert
Worster, Donald
Robert, Harms

Paperback

Series: Studies in Environment and History

African HistoryGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0521655358
ISBN13: 9780521655354
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Oct 28 1999
Pages: 300
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.72 Width: 6.04 Depth: 9.01
Language: English
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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