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| Title: | Notes on the Distribution and Settlement Pattern of Hunter-Gatherers in Northwestern Congo |
| Author: | Sato, Hiroaki |
| Year: | 1991 |
| Periodical: | African Study Monographs |
| Volume: | 13 |
| Issue: | 4 |
| Period: | December |
| Pages: | 203-216 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Congo (Republic of) |
| Subjects: | hunter-gatherers settlement patterns Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) |
| External link: | https://jambo.africa.kyoto-u.ac.jp/kiroku/asm_normal/abstracts/pdf/ASM%20%20Vol.13%20No.4%201992/H.%20SATO.pdf |
| Abstract: | This report describes the distribution, population, and residential pattern of hunter-gatherers in the Sangha Region of northwestern Congo based on a field survey carried out by the author in 1987. The author identified five linguistic groups of hunter-gatherers: the Baka (Bangombe), Mikaya, Baluma, Bambenjele, and Bakola. Almost all these groups built sedentary settlements along roads or on the banks of a river and tended their own fields. They still engaged in hunting, and considered themselves hunters and were seen as such by the neighbouring farmers. In Souanke District in the western part of the region, 664 Baka lived in 15 settlements. The data on birthplace suggest that the Baka in the area originally had a close relationship with the Baka in Cameroon. Some Baka informants said that there were a total of 22 Baka settlements in Sembe District in the centre of the region. In Mokeko District in the eastern part, the author counted 25 settlements, and another 11 settlements were counted by local informants. The inhabitants of these settlements included all five linguistic groups. Several cases of fission and fusion of Baka settlements with farmer villages in Souanke demonstrate the socioeconomic relationship between the two groups. Bibliogr., sum. |
