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Hunting of the Boyela, slash-and-burn agriculturalists, in the central Zaire forest
African study monographs • 4 • Published In 1983 • Pages: 1-54
By: Sato, Hiroaki.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This monograph describes and analyzes the hunting techniques of the Boyela, a section of the Mongo people living in Central Congo Basin, Zaire. It shows that the Boyela are settled forest agriculturalists who grow mostly cassava tubers. It also shows that the Boyela need to engage themselves in 'part-time hunting,' since their tuber-based diet is ' very low in protient content'. As a consequence, they needed to develop a set of hunting techniques that are 'most efficient in terms of labour-input.' The most important of these techniques include trapping and ocassional organized trips to hunt by drive and ambush methods.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Hunting and trapping
- Collecting
- Tillage
- Settlement patterns
- Fishing
- Environmental quality
- Diet
- Food preparation
- Preservation and storage of food
- Gift giving
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Mongo
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2010
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Africa
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Central Africa
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Anthropologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Teferi A. Adem; 2008
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1976-1977, 1978-1979
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1976-1979
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- central Congo Basin, Democratic Republic of the Congo
- NotesAdditional notes
- Hiroaki Sato
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 54)
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Mongo (African people)