Lovejoy argues that sufficient information exists about individuals taken as captives in the slave trade to allow historians to dispense with a generalized notion of a "traditional" African background for New World blacks and, accordingly, to articulate the African-ness of the black diaspora with ethnic and historical specificity. Lovejoy concedes there are difficulties involved with absorbing ...

CULTURAL SAMPLE The Standard Cross-Cultural Sample, or SCCS (Murdock and White 1969), is a cumulative and collaborative database of coded variables on maximally diverse and ethnographically best-described societies used by scholars in the social sciences. The champion of modern cross-cultural and statistical methods, George P. Murdock, in preparation for a standard sample, had classified the 1,...

Bovid diets have been studied for decades, but debate still exists about the diets of many species, in part because of geographical or habitat-related dietary variations. In this study we used stable carbon isotope analyses of faeces to explore the seasonal dietary preferences of 11 bovid species from a West African savanna, the Pendjari Biosphere Reserve (PBR), along the browser/grazer (or C3/...

Le néré, Parkia biglobosa est une espèce polyvalente reconnue pour ses utilités socioéconomiques et environnementales. L’objectif de l’étude d’analyser les caractéristiques structurales importances socio-économiques l’espèce dans Communes Bohicon d’Abomey au Bénin. L’étude a été réalisée villages : Détohou, Zounzonmè la commune Saclo, Kpatalocoli Lissazounmè Bohicon. L’approche méthodologique c...