Biodiversité et équilibre du régime alimentaire

The article places the relationships between food, food strategies, diet and nutritional state back into an interdisciplinary context – ecological, anthropological and biological. It concerns both ntomba “castes” : the baOto, farmers and fishermen, who also hunt and harvest to a lesser extent ; and...

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Main Author: Hélène Pagezy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Laboratoire Éco-anthropologie et Ethnobiologie 2013-11-01
Series:Revue d'ethnoécologie
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/ethnoecologie/1424
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description The article places the relationships between food, food strategies, diet and nutritional state back into an interdisciplinary context – ecological, anthropological and biological. It concerns both ntomba “castes” : the baOto, farmers and fishermen, who also hunt and harvest to a lesser extent ; and the baTwa pygmies, descending from hunters-gatherers, who sometimes fish in flooded forest. After a long contact period, these two populations came to speak the same language and follow the same rules but for minor variations. In 1970, when this field experience began, there was an obvious biodiversity. Isolation protected it from quick transformation.The article follows the various steps of setting up a family diet and then an individual diet. It is guided by the specificities of environmental, socio-cultural and socio-economical contexts. The creation of a diet able to face biological as well as socio-cultural needs was a real challenge. Nevertheless, these two castes were compatible in their food strategies, alliances, vassalage, sharing and exchanges; which have been a true asset, allowing them not to put all their eggs in one basket.
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Biodiversité et équilibre du régime alimentaire
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biological anthropology
fishermen
swamp forest
title Biodiversité et équilibre du régime alimentaire
title_full Biodiversité et équilibre du régime alimentaire
title_fullStr Biodiversité et équilibre du régime alimentaire
title_full_unstemmed Biodiversité et équilibre du régime alimentaire
title_short Biodiversité et équilibre du régime alimentaire
title_sort biodiversite et equilibre du regime alimentaire
topic seasons
foodways
biological anthropology
fishermen
swamp forest
url https://journals.openedition.org/ethnoecologie/1424
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