Sudan The Land And The People

TRIMINGHAM, J. Spencer. ISLAM IN THE SUDAN. London Frank Cass & Co 1965
The land and the people. Historical outline : The Christian Kingdoms to the Arab Conquests. History of the Sudan under Muslim Rule. Orthodox Islam. Beliefs and Practices of Popular Islam. The Religious Orders. Islam and Pagan Sudan. Influence of Westernism on the Sudan.

Bound, green dust hardcover, 14x22.2 cm., 280 pp., 2 maps in the text b/w.

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Masood, Ehsan (Editor): Dry: Life Without Water, Harvard University Press, ISBN: 0674022246
einige Lagerspuren Editorial Reviews\n\nReview\nWhen it comes to water conservation, ancient wisdom often turns out to be far superior to modern insight...This is an insightful, not to say stunningly beautiful, book...Some of the longest-lasting and most successful initiatives described in Dry are those that promote, revive or build on indigenous knowledge and research. So let us not be so smug about the presumed intrinsic superiority of our modernity. The goat-rearers of Brazil, the camel herders of Sudan and the Bedouin of Jordan have a great deal to teach us, if only we could learn to listen.\n--Ziauddin Sardar (New Statesman 20060413)\n\nDry: Life Without Water tells 16 stories of dryland life, from fog catching above Chile's Atacama Desert to the forest nurseries helping to regenerate Burkina Faso's near-barren terrain. A distillation of work by the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World and the Third World Network of Scientific Organizations, these snapshots of sustainability are models of how science and traditional knowledge can profit from each other. (Nature 20061119)\n\nForty percent of the world's land surface and more than half the land surface of the developing world is arid. Sixteen stories from Africa, Asia, Central and South America, and the Middle East show how more than a billion people who live in these extreme hot, cold, or high places cope with the lack of water and other challenges to survival...Thoughtfully written with an impressive artistic layout and many poignant photographs, this is a book that deserves an international audience.\n--Phaedra Greenwood (Santa Fe New Mexican )\n\nThese stories, which were collected over three years by photographers, writers, and scientists from four continents, contain a wealth of information and images that convey life as it is carried on in the Earth's driest regions. (Natural Hazards Observer )\n\nProduct Description\n\nWater is in the air we breathe and beneath the ground we walk on. The very substance of life, it makes up as much as 60 percent of the human body. And yet, for one billion people there is such a thing as life without water. These are the people we meet in Dry--those who live in the dry lands of Africa, Asia, the Pacific, and the Americas, eking out an existence at once remarkable and mundane between craggy mountains, near oases, or close to well-springs surrounded by cracked earth or shifting sands.\n\nFrom the ingenuity of the highland people of Chile's Atacama desert who use giant nets to capture water from clouds of fog, to the ancient wisdom that protects the grazing lands of Kenya's Masai, this beautifully illustrated book tells the diverse stories about people in very hot, very cold, or very high places, who spend their lives collecting, chasing, piping, and trapping the water that life requires--all the while taking great care that no form of life, plant or animal, benefits at the expense of another.\n\nIn a world of finite resources, where the struggle for shrinking sources of water intensifies daily, these stories--collected over three years by photographers, writers, and scientists from four continents--are a source of hope and wonder. This book contains a wealth of information and images designed to further awareness of the vast array of life that is carried on precariously yet proudly on the earth's dryest lands. (20060426) , ISBN-13: 9780674022249

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UCKO (P.), TRINGHAM (R.), DIMBLEBY (G.W.) [dir.]: Man, Settlement and Urbanism. G. Duckworth, 1972.
INTRODUCTION R. TRINGHAM - PART ONE Non-urban seulement: SECTION ONE Concepts, in theory and practice. W. BLOUET : Factors influencing the evolution of settlement patterns - D. A. DAVIDSON : Terrain adjustment and prehistoric communities - K. V. FLANNERY : The origins of the village as a settlement type in Mesoamerica and the Near East : a comparative study - P. GATHERCOLE : The study of seulement patterns in Polynesia - M. R. JARMAN, C. VITA-FINZI, E. S. HIGGS : Site catchment analysis in archaeology - R. S. MACNEISH : The evolution of community patterns in Tehuacan Valley of Mexico and speculations about the cultural processes - I. ROUSE : Seulement patterns in archaeology - C. TAYLOR : The study of settlement patterns in pre-Saxon Britain - SECTION TWO The influence of mobility on non-urban settlement. B. ALLCHIN : Hunters or pastoral nomads ? Late Stone Age settlements in Western and Central India - S. BOKONYI : Zoological evidence for seasonal or permanent occupation of prehistoric settlements - J. D. CLARK: Mobility and settlement patterns in sub-Saharan Africa: a comparison of late prehistoric hunter-gatherers and early agricultural occupation units - J. D. CLARK: Palaeolithic butchery practices - I. C. GLOVER : Settlements and mobility among the hunter-gatherers of south-east Asia - G. LL. ISAAc : Comparative studies of Pleistocene site locations in East Africa - R. B. LEE : Work effort, group structure and land-use in contemporary hunter-gatherers - P, SIMONSEN : The transition from food-gathering to pastoralism in north Scandinavia and its impact on settlement patterns - J. C. WOODBURN : Ecology, nomadic movement and the composition of the local group among hunters and gatherers : an East African example and its implications - J. J. WYMER AND R. SINGER: Middle Stone Age occupational settlements on the Tzitzikama coast, eastern Cape Province, South Africa - SECTION THREE The influence of ecology and agriculture on nonurban seulement. W. ALLAN: Ecology, techniques and settlement patterns - DOUMAS: Early Bronze Age settlement patterns in the Cyclades - FRENCH: Seulement distribution in the Konya Plain, south-central Turkey - J. R. HARLAN: Crops that extend the range of agricultural seulement - R. HARRIS: Swidden systems and seulement - V. M. MASSON: Prehistoric settlement patterns in Soviet central Asia - J. MELLAART : Anatolian Neolithic seulement patterns - J. MIDDLETON: Patterns of settlement in Zanzibar - P. MORTENSEN: Seasonal camps and early villages in the Zagros - J. OATES: Prehistoric seulement patterns in Mesopotamia - B. REYNOLDS: Kwandu settlement: isolation, integration and mobility among a south-central African people - B. SOUDSKY AND I. PAVLÜ: The Linear Pottery Culture settlement patterns of central Europe - W. WATSON: Neolithic settlement in East Asia - PART TWO Factors influencing both non-urban and urban settlement: SECTION ONE Population, disease and demography. - R. BOYD: Urbanization, morbidity and mortality - BROTHWELL : Community health as a factor in urban cultural evolution - A. FORGE: Normative factors in the seulement size of Neolithic cultivators (New Guinea) - R. LAYTON: Seulement and community - C. RENFREW: Patterns of population growth in the prehistoric Aegean - V. REYNOLDS: Ethology of urban life 4C P. E. L. SMITH: Land-use, settlement patterns and subsistence agriculture: a demographic perspective - SECTION TWO Territoriality and the demarcation of land R. D. MARTIN: Concepts of human territoriality - M. J. ROWLANDS : Defence: a factor in the organization of settlements R. TRINGHAM: Territorial demarcation of prehistoric settlements W. A. WEST : The effect of private and public law on the use and development of land - SECTION THREE. Techniques, planning and cultural change - B. A. L. CRANSTONE : Environment and choice in dwelling and seulement : an ethnographical survey - G. DANISMAN: The architectural development of settlements in Anatolia - M. DOUGLAS: Symbolic orders in the use of domestic space - W. M. HODGES: Domestic building materials and ancient settlements - J. G. HURST : The changing medieval village in England - A. RITCHIE: Inferences from settlements in Britain in the first millennium B.C. - F. W. SCHWERDTFEGER : Urban settlement patterns in northern Nigeria (Hausaland) - PART THREE Urban Settlement: SECTION ONE Development and characteristics of urbanism. D. GROVE: The function and future of urban centres - M. G. SMITH: Complexity, size and urbanization - B. G. TRIGGER : D eterminants of urban growth in pre-industrial societies P. WHEATLEY: The concept of urbanism - SECTION TWO Regional and local evidence for urban settlement Subsection A : The Nile Valley - A.M. ALI : Meroitic settlement of the Butana (central Sudan) - D. M. DIXON: The disposai of certain personal, household and town waste in ancient Egypt - J. KEMP: Fortified towns in Nubia - B. J. KEMP: Temple and town in ancient Egypt - D. O'CONNOR: The geography of settlement in ancient Egypt - J. D. RAY: The House of Osorapis - H. S. SMITH: Society and settlement in ancient Egypt - E. Umm,: The concept of the Egyptian palace as a "ruling machine" - Subsection B: Western Asia and the Aegean - R. McC. ADAMS: Patterns of urbanization in early southern Mesopotamia - K. BRANIGAN: Minoan settlements in east Crete - H. E. W. CRAWFORD: Stimuli towards urbanization in south Mesopotamia - S. C. HUMPHREYS: Town and country in ancient Greece - A. JOHNSON: A test of the utility of Central Place Theory in archaeology - A. McNicon : The development of urban defences in Hellenistic Asia Minor - J. NISSEN: The city Wall of Uruk - D. OATES: The development of Assyrian towns and cities - P. J. PARR: Settlement patterns and urban planning in the ancient Levant: the nature of the evidence - J. N. POSTGATE: The role of the temple in the Mesopotamian secular community - T. C. YOUNG, jr.: Population densities and early Mesopotamia urbanism - Subsection C: Western Europe. ALEXANDER: The beginnings of urban life in Europe - K. BRANIGAN: Verulamium and the Chiltern villas - M. W. C. HASSALL : Roman urbanization in western Europe - D. STURDY: Correlation of evidence of medieval urban communities - B. WARD-PERKINS : Central authority and patterns of rural settlement - Subsection D: Sub-Saharan Africa. P. MORTON-WILLIAMS : Some factors in the location, growth and survival of towns in West Africa - W. G. L. RANDLES: Pre-colonial urbanization in Africa south of the Equator - A. WHITTY: Zimbabwe and Inyanga - Subsection E: Central and South America. G. H. A. BANKES : Settlement patterns in the lower Moche Valley, north Peru, with special reference to the Early Horizon and Early Intermediate Period - W. BRAY: Land-use, settlement patterns and politics in prehispanic Middle America : a review - C. DAY: Urban planning at Chan Chan, Peru - D. J. ROBINSON: Changing settlement patterns in colonial Hispanie America.

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UCKO (P.), TRINGHAM (R.), DIMBLEBY (G.W.) [dir.]: Man, Settlement and Urbanism. G. Duckworth, 1972.
INTRODUCTION R. TRINGHAM - PART ONE Non-urban seulement: SECTION ONE Concepts, in theory and practice. W. BLOUET : Factors influencing the evolution of settlement patterns - D. A. DAVIDSON : Terrain adjustment and prehistoric communities - K. V. FLANNERY : The origins of the village as a settlement type in Mesoamerica and the Near East : a comparative study - P. GATHERCOLE : The study of seulement patterns in Polynesia - M. R. JARMAN, C. VITA-FINZI, E. S. HIGGS : Site catchment analysis in archaeology - R. S. MACNEISH : The evolution of community patterns in Tehuacan Valley of Mexico and speculations about the cultural processes - I. ROUSE : Seulement patterns in archaeology - C. TAYLOR : The study of settlement patterns in pre-Saxon Britain - SECTION TWO The influence of mobility on non-urban settlement. B. ALLCHIN : Hunters or pastoral nomads ? Late Stone Age settlements in Western and Central India - S. BOKONYI : Zoological evidence for seasonal or permanent occupation of prehistoric settlements - J. D. CLARK: Mobility and settlement patterns in sub-Saharan Africa: a comparison of late prehistoric hunter-gatherers and early agricultural occupation units - J. D. CLARK: Palaeolithic butchery practices - I. C. GLOVER : Settlements and mobility among the hunter-gatherers of south-east Asia - G. LL. ISAAc : Comparative studies of Pleistocene site locations in East Africa - R. B. LEE : Work effort, group structure and land-use in contemporary hunter-gatherers - P, SIMONSEN : The transition from food-gathering to pastoralism in north Scandinavia and its impact on settlement patterns - J. C. WOODBURN : Ecology, nomadic movement and the composition of the local group among hunters and gatherers : an East African example and its implications - J. J. WYMER AND R. SINGER: Middle Stone Age occupational settlements on the Tzitzikama coast, eastern Cape Province, South Africa - SECTION THREE The influence of ecology and agriculture on nonurban seulement. W. ALLAN: Ecology, techniques and settlement patterns - DOUMAS: Early Bronze Age settlement patterns in the Cyclades - FRENCH: Seulement distribution in the Konya Plain, south-central Turkey - J. R. HARLAN: Crops that extend the range of agricultural seulement - R. HARRIS: Swidden systems and seulement - V. M. MASSON: Prehistoric settlement patterns in Soviet central Asia - J. MELLAART : Anatolian Neolithic seulement patterns - J. MIDDLETON: Patterns of settlement in Zanzibar - P. MORTENSEN: Seasonal camps and early villages in the Zagros - J. OATES: Prehistoric seulement patterns in Mesopotamia - B. REYNOLDS: Kwandu settlement: isolation, integration and mobility among a south-central African people - B. SOUDSKY AND I. PAVLÜ: The Linear Pottery Culture settlement patterns of central Europe - W. WATSON: Neolithic settlement in East Asia - PART TWO Factors influencing both non-urban and urban settlement: SECTION ONE Population, disease and demography. - R. BOYD: Urbanization, morbidity and mortality - BROTHWELL : Community health as a factor in urban cultural evolution - A. FORGE: Normative factors in the seulement size of Neolithic cultivators (New Guinea) - R. LAYTON: Seulement and community - C. RENFREW: Patterns of population growth in the prehistoric Aegean - V. REYNOLDS: Ethology of urban life 4C P. E. L. SMITH: Land-use, settlement patterns and subsistence agriculture: a demographic perspective - SECTION TWO Territoriality and the demarcation of land R. D. MARTIN: Concepts of human territoriality - M. J. ROWLANDS : Defence: a factor in the organization of settlements R. TRINGHAM: Territorial demarcation of prehistoric settlements W. A. WEST : The effect of private and public law on the use and development of land - SECTION THREE. Techniques, planning and cultural change - B. A. L. CRANSTONE : Environment and choice in dwelling and seulement : an ethnographical survey - G. DANISMAN: The architectural development of settlements in Anatolia - M. DOUGLAS: Symbolic orders in the use of domestic space - W. M. HODGES: Domestic building materials and ancient settlements - J. G. HURST : The changing medieval village in England - A. RITCHIE: Inferences from settlements in Britain in the first millennium B.C. - F. W. SCHWERDTFEGER : Urban settlement patterns in northern Nigeria (Hausaland) - PART THREE Urban Settlement: SECTION ONE Development and characteristics of urbanism. D. GROVE: The function and future of urban centres - M. G. SMITH: Complexity, size and urbanization - B. G. TRIGGER : D eterminants of urban growth in pre-industrial societies P. WHEATLEY: The concept of urbanism - SECTION TWO Regional and local evidence for urban settlement Subsection A : The Nile Valley - A.M. ALI : Meroitic settlement of the Butana (central Sudan) - D. M. DIXON: The disposai of certain personal, household and town waste in ancient Egypt - J. KEMP: Fortified towns in Nubia - B. J. KEMP: Temple and town in ancient Egypt - D. O'CONNOR: The geography of settlement in ancient Egypt - J. D. RAY: The House of Osorapis - H. S. SMITH: Society and settlement in ancient Egypt - E. Umm,: The concept of the Egyptian palace as a "ruling machine" - Subsection B: Western Asia and the Aegean - R. McC. ADAMS: Patterns of urbanization in early southern Mesopotamia - K. BRANIGAN: Minoan settlements in east Crete - H. E. W. CRAWFORD: Stimuli towards urbanization in south Mesopotamia - S. C. HUMPHREYS: Town and country in ancient Greece - A. JOHNSON: A test of the utility of Central Place Theory in archaeology - A. McNicon : The development of urban defences in Hellenistic Asia Minor - J. NISSEN: The city Wall of Uruk - D. OATES: The development of Assyrian towns and cities - P. J. PARR: Settlement patterns and urban planning in the ancient Levant: the nature of the evidence - J. N. POSTGATE: The role of the temple in the Mesopotamian secular community - T. C. YOUNG, jr.: Population densities and early Mesopotamia urbanism - Subsection C: Western Europe. ALEXANDER: The beginnings of urban life in Europe - K. BRANIGAN: Verulamium and the Chiltern villas - M. W. C. HASSALL : Roman urbanization in western Europe - D. STURDY: Correlation of evidence of medieval urban communities - B. WARD-PERKINS : Central authority and patterns of rural settlement - Subsection D: Sub-Saharan Africa. P. MORTON-WILLIAMS : Some factors in the location, growth and survival of towns in West Africa - W. G. L. RANDLES: Pre-colonial urbanization in Africa south of the Equator - A. WHITTY: Zimbabwe and Inyanga - Subsection E: Central and South America. G. H. A. BANKES : Settlement patterns in the lower Moche Valley, north Peru, with special reference to the Early Horizon and Early Intermediate Period - W. BRAY: Land-use, settlement patterns and politics in prehispanic Middle America : a review - C. DAY: Urban planning at Chan Chan, Peru - D. J. ROBINSON: Changing settlement patterns in colonial Hispanie America.

Grd. et fort in-8 rel.,pleine toile gommee grise d'edition, sous jaquette ill., XXVIII-979 pp, nbr. fig. in-t. et 8 pl. d'ill. h-t. ISBN: 0-7156-0589-5. Bonne condition.

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