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Anthropology & Aging, 2012 This essay examines the meanings of the seclusion of frail elders and the roles of small children who act as their primary caregivers in rural Tuareg communities of northern Niger, and explores the implications of these arrangements for ...
Susan Rasmussen
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, 2010 West Africans throughout the region have creatively adapted the Arabic script to write non-Arabic languages, a form of literacy known as Ajami which remains widespread today despite little or no government support.
Souag, Lameen
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The Intraplate Stress Field of West Africa
Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 51, Issue 11, 16 June 2024.Abstract West Africa continues to host a growing number of low and intermediate‐magnitude earthquakes (M2‐5) along its passive margins, and its continental interior. Earthquake activity in these regions raises the need to comprehend the causes and the tectonic controls of the seismicity. Unfortunately, such studies are rare.
Jean‐Joel Legre +3 more
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Power, Law and Blood: Sources of Patriarchy in the Middle East [PDF]
, 2013 This unpublished article was kindly provided to BU's institutional repository for deposit by the ...
Lindholm, Charles
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Agribusiness, Volume 40, Issue 2, Page 484-512, Spring 2024.Abstract Formal credit plays an important role for the development of the agriculture sector in developing countries because many farmers are characterized as liquidity constrained. Access to credit can increase farmers' purchasing power for inputs and agricultural technology, thus raising the overall productivity.
Tim Ölkers, Oliver Mußhoff
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Stability : International Journal of Security and Development, 2013 Political elites in Bamako articulate different understandings of the war in northern Mali, though share the same view on the restoration of Malian sovereignty.
Roland Marchal
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Ethnobiology Letters, 2014 An understanding of the variability of snake venom composition is of high relevance for adequate treatment of snakebites. Clinical observations of bite victims are considered as a first step in the study of venom variability.
Tilman Musch
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Ecology and power in the periphery of Maasina : the case of the Hayre in the nineteenth century [PDF]
This article explores political tensions between successive nineteenth-century rulers of the inland delta of the Niger in central Mali (the Fulbe Diina of Hamdullahi and the Futanke successors of al-Hajj Umar) and the pastoral interests of the Fulbe ...
Bruijn, M., de, Dijk, H., van
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Henri Duveyrier et Cheikh ‘Othmân, cartographes du Sahara
L’Année du Maghreb, 2011 The book published by Henri Duveyrier in 1864 under the title Tuaregs of the North included a 1/3000000 scale map which was considered for decades as the reference map of the Sahara.
Dominique Casajus
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