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Title: PERCEPTION OF HUNTING, GATHERING AND FISHING TECHNIQUES OF THE BAKOLA OF THE COASTAL REGION, SOUTHERN CAMEROON
Authors: NGIMA MAWOUNG, Godefroy
Keywords: Bakola
Hunting
Gathering
Fishing
Techniques
Tools
Socio-cultural role
Woman's role.
Issue Date: May-2006
Publisher: The Center for African Area Studies, Kyoto University
Journal title: African Study Monographs. Supplementary Issue.
Volume: 33
Start page: 49
End page: 70
Abstract: While the BaKola (sin. Nkola) are known as one of the "Pygmy" groups in the forest regions of central Africa, their subsistence activities have not yet been described in details, unlike other groups of "Pygmies" in the central African region. This paper is thus to present the basic data on their tools and techniques for hunting, gathering and fishing, and on the social representations of these techniques, and to examines the reasons why up to the 21st century they have been maintaining their distinctive lifestyle as hunter-gatherers, through analyzing their roles played and the symbolism represented by their activities in the multi-ethnic local community of the coastal region of southern Cameroon. In particular, it demonstrates that their trade, gift-exchanges, important rituals, and other aspects of their social and economic life are based on the three major traditional activities, hunting, gathering and fishing.
DOI: 10.14989/68475
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2433/68475
Appears in Collections:33 (Ecology and Change of the Hunter-Gatherer Societies in the Western Congo Basin)

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