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Afriques, 2020 During his travel to Timbuktu in 1827–1828, René Caillié was interested in the lifestyle of the Muslims traders, his fellow travellers, and of the animist villagers along the caravans’ path.
Monique Chastanet
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Finding provenance, seeking context
Afriques, 2020 If one of the aims of art history is to understand better the original meaning of the works studied, then an historical methodology is absolutely essential to the identification and interpretation of precolonial objects.
Peter Mark
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Afriques, 2018 This is a review of six excavation campaigns carried out from 2012 to 2017. They took place at Antsiraka Boira near Acoua village, (North-Western part of Mayotte, Grande Terre). It deals with a 29-graves excavation out of a set of 69.
Martial Pauly, Marine Ferrandis
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A triangle: Spatial processes of urbanization and political power in 19th-century Tabora, Tanzania
Afriques, 2020 This article aims to contribute to the study of the urbanization of caravan-related towns in 19th-century Tanzania by unpacking the way multiple settlements merged into a town that came to be known as Tabora.
Karin Pallaver
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Du lexique aux talismans : occurrences de la peste dans la Corne de l’Afrique du XIIIe au XVe siècle
Afriques, 2018 Recent researches on plague invite scholars to enlarge the chronology and the geography of the Black Death. If, according to the commonly admitted chronology, the Black Death occurred in Western Europe from 1347 to 1350, it is now evident that outbreaks ...
Marie-Laure Derat
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Afriques, 2015 This article discusses the specific role played by the makabaila of Ndzuwani Island (Comoro archipelago) in trade routes across the Indian Ocean. Townspeople of Ndzuwani Island, the makabaila were learned merchants and landowners with their origin in the
Sophie Blanchy
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Afriques, 2010 One of the first exogenous looks on the Great Lakes region of Africa came from a missionary in Burundi, the Dutch White Father Van der Burgt. He published in 1903 a French‑Kirundi encyclopaedic dictionary, which left a lasting influence on that countries
Jean-Pierre Chrétien
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Afriques, 2019 This article aims to discuss Islamic expansion in West Africa during the 16th and 17th centuries along with carved ivory production. The analysis concerns the Greater Senegambia, a region comprised of the Senegal River basin in the north, the Futa Jalon ...
Thiago H. Mota
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Le cartel des arts. Enjeux d’histoire entre assignations ethnographiques et présentations muséales
Afriques, 2019 Reconsidering the course of Marcel Griaule’s Ethiopian research, visiting the musée du quai Branly, the author examines the explicit and implicit presuppositions of discourse as well as of the museum’s itinerary, through the analysis of labels and the ...
Claire Bosc-Tiessé
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Calebasses anthropophages et dévoreurs africains
Afriques, 2019 The corpus of the myths of the "Devouring Calabash" is here enriched and complemented, as well as that of the diluvial myths, not uncommon in Africa contrary to a widespread opinion. Phylomemetics show that the distribution of the African versions of the
Jean-Loïc Le Quellec
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