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De l’igname au manioc dans le golfe de Guinée : traite des esclaves et alimentation au royaume du Danhomè (XVIIe-XIXe siècle)

Afriques, 2014
Before the introduction to the ancient Slave Coast of several plants with American origins, the diet was based on the consumption of cereals and tubers, namely millet, sorghum, rice and yams.
Dominique Juhé-Beaulaton
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Le festin dahoméen. Femmes du palais, politiques internes et pratiques culinaires en Afrique de l’Ouest au XVIIIe-XIXe siècle

Afriques, 2014
Feasting is a central component of elite power strategies in complex societies worldwide. In the precolonial Kingdom of Dahomey, located in the Republic of Bénin, public feasts were a critical component of royal strategies to attract and bind political ...
J. Cameron Monroe, Anneke Janzen
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Vie et miracles de Daniel de Qorqor. Introduction

Afriques, 2014
The Life and the miracles of Daniel of Qorqor are currently known through two manuscripts preserved in the church of Māryām Qorqor in Tigray. The first, dated to 1911 A.D., is available only on a microfilm kept at the Institute of Ethiopian Studies in ...
Gérard Colin
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Vie et miracles de Daniel de Qorqor. Édition du texte guèze

Afriques, 2014
This edition and translation of the Life and Miracles of Daniel is based on a manuscript still kept in the church of Māryām Qorqor. Covered with wooden boards, it measures 34.5 x 30 x 9 cm and has 115 folios of parchment.
Gérard Colin
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L’archipel des Comores et son histoire ancienne. Essai de mise en perspective des chroniques, de la tradition orale et des typologies de céramiques locales et d’importation

Afriques, 2015
This article treats neither the early modern history nor the contemporary history of the Comoro Islands, but aims to study the earlier periods by correlating and comparing three types of documents despite the inherent difficulties of doing so ...
Claude Allibert
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Dispute over precedence and protocol: Hagiography and forgery in 19th-century Ethiopia

Afriques, 2016
This study investigates the textual and legal issues conveyed by records of a court case that took place in 1897 involving the Ethiopian churches of Dima and Märtulä Maryam over precedence, court etiquette, and decorum.
Habtamu Mengistie Tegegne
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L’immigration indentured à l’île Maurice, 1840-1870 : conditions, abus et résistance

Afriques, 2015
This article analyzes the indentured labour in Mauritius between the 1840s and the 1870s. In particular it focuses on labour forms and relationships, the salaries level and payment, debt and eventually savings, health assistance and the conditions for ...
Alessandro Stanziani
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Mobilité et archéologie le long de l’arc oriental du Niger : pavements et percuteurs

Afriques, 2013
This analysis of the role of migration in West Africa begins by recalling the prevalence of oral traditions about so-called 'first-comers', and takes the example of dry season migrations in the Hausa area (cin rani).
Anne Haour
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Foodways of Enslaved Laborers on French West Indian Plantations (18th-19th century)

Afriques, 2014
In the plantation settlements of the Americas, enslaved Africans and their descendants were compelled to create a system of foodways that provided sufficient nutrition for their survival and that could be assembled out of the resources available to them.
Kenneth G. Kelly, Diane Wallman
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Events and Happenings: Uncommon Meals and the Atlantic Trade at 18th century Juffure (The Gambia)

Afriques, 2014
The arrival of the Portuguese on the West African coast in the mid-15th century reoriented the centre of trade relative to the European market in West Africa.
Liza Gijanto
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