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Games Against Nature: An Eco-Cultural History of the Nunu of Equatorial Africa
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Games Against Nature: An Eco-Cultural History of the Nunu of Equatorial Africa Hardcover - 1988

by Robert Harms


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In this book, Robert Harms makes an important advance toward recovering the history of the people of the rain forest by telling the story of the Nunu, who live in and around swampy floodplains of the middle Zaire River. Using concepts drawn from game theory, Professor Harms explores the changing relationship between nature and culture among the Nunu. Picturing Nunu society as animated by a never-ending competition among lineages and households, he traces how the competition pushed people into new environments, and how adaption to the new environment, in turn, led to new forms of competition.

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TO AN AIR TRAVELER, the equatorial African rain forest looks like a thick, green carpet that stretches to the horizon and beyond.

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  • Title Games Against Nature: An Eco-Cultural History of the Nunu of Equatorial Africa
  • Author Robert Harms
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 1st Edition
  • Pages 288
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
  • Date January 29, 1988
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780521343732 / 0521343739
  • Weight 1.15 lbs (0.52 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.98 x 5.98 x 0.98 in (22.81 x 15.19 x 2.49 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Nunu (African people), Human ecology - Congo (Democratic Republic)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 87011749
  • Dewey Decimal Code 967.24
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