Unlike a birth or a death, a" migration" is not a discrete natural event, one of a series that can
be counted and classified with little or no ambiguity. Whether someone who moves is a" …

Abstract In south-eastern Senegal, Bassari farmers have historically cultivated and
consumed a wide diversity of varieties of sorghum, fonio, and Bambara groundnut, most of …

A framework for understanding the dynamics of humans coping with environmental hazards
and the interaction of natural phenomena with social process is provided. Facts about and …

In origin deserts are natural phenomena. Desertification, the aggravation or extension of
such conditions, is a human phenomenon that arises from society's search for secure …

Migration among the Bassari people of eastern Senegal has produced an apparent
paradox: villages are experiencing rapid and profound change as they are being …

Drawing on ethnographic research with Senegalese female migrants in Brikama, The
Gambia, this article examines local citizenship and agrarian clientelism. Emphasis is placed …

This thesis is about the Ok Tedi mine in Papua New Guinea. Throughout the literature on
mining and communities, there is a split between the technical and the social. Technical …

During the second half of the last century the Greek countryside entered the world of industry
and commerce, which was followed by important economic and social changes. For several …

This study examines the African family-household as an important economic organization.
The household is distinguished from the social unit of the family, within which it forms a …

Drawing on ethnographic research with Senegalese female migrants in Brikama, The
Gambia this article examines local citizenship and agrarian clientelism. Emphasis is placed …