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タイトル: | 18. ELEPHANT HUNTING BY THE MBUTI HUNTERGATHERERS IN THE EASTERN CONGO BASIN |
著者: | Ichikawa, Mitsuo |
著者名の別形: | 市川, 光雄 |
キーワード: | elephants spear hunting batuma success rate meat distribution festive consumption |
発行日: | 2021 |
出版者: | Tübingen University Press |
誌名: | Human-elephant interactions: from past to present |
開始ページ: | 455 |
終了ページ: | 467 |
抄録: | Mbuti hunter-gatherers in the Ituri forest of the eastern Congo Basin have been known as elephant hunters since the colonial period. They provided the colonial agents with ivory, and supplied meat for local mining and plantation workers, as well as for their own consumption. In this study, I present ethnography of the Mbuti elephant (Lox- odonta cyclotis) hunting practiced during my field research in the 1970s and 1980s, including the de- scription of hunting method with spears, hunting party and success rate, distribution of meat, and festive nature of meat consumption. Although the elephant hunting provided almost as much meat (6–7 tonnes of live weight/year for a group of 50 people) like other types of hunting aiming at me- dium to small-sized antelopes and monkeys, the success rate of the elephant hunt was very low. In contrast to the stable yields of meat from hunt- ing for smaller animals, elephant hunting was suc- cessful only a few times a year, mainly by skilled hunters called batuma, with their courage and luck. For such unstable nature, with its low success rate and huge quantity of meat supply in a successful hunt, elephant hunting provided the Mbuti with exciting experiences with rich ritual performances and festive meat consumption, and gave a strong accent to the otherwise monotonous hunting life in the forest. |
記述: | Tuebingen Paleoanthropology Book Series – Contributions in Paleoanthropology Band 1 |
著作権等: | CC BY-NC-ND |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2433/287326 |
DOI(出版社版): | 10.15496/publikation-55581 |
出現コレクション: | 学術雑誌掲載論文等 |
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