Ouvrages (CAC)

Ouvrages publiés à titre de seul auteur

2015

Techniques, rituels et organisation sociale des forgerons Shi

2007

Le tour du potier. Six leçons sur l'université et le monde

2002

Poteries du Cameroun méridional

2000

Pouvoir : discours prononcé à l'occasion de la séance solennelle de rentrée le 2 octobre 2000

1992

Fouilles archéologiques dans la vallée du Haut-Lualaba, Zaire. III. Kamilamba, Kikulu et Malemba-Nkulu, 1975

1985

Fouilles archéologiques dans la vallée du Haut-Lualaba, Zaire. 2: Sanga et Katongo, 1974

Ouvrages publiés en collaboration

2017

Manuel de terrain en archéologie africaine

Field manual for African archaeology

2016

An ideal bone for traditionnal dolls. Ruminants metapodia figurines : Archaeological and ethnographical examples from Africa and Europe

2015

Carrefour des empires

2010

Assessment of Emergency Crisis Centers and Case Management

2008

Gouvernance et environnement en Afrique centrale: le modèle participatif en question

L'approche participative contribue-t-elle aujourd'hui à une meilleure gestion des ressources naturelles en Afrique centrale ? C'est par un NON univoque que le présent ouvrage collectif répond à la question.Malgré les ambitions affichées par les décideurs et les gestionnaires en termes de participation des acteurs locaux, les moyens déployés pour la mise en œuvre de ces actions sont insuffisants. Les projets de développement et de conservation sont confrontés à des difficultés importantes, notamment en raison d'une incompréhension flagrante des réalités sociales et politiques. L'adhésion des populations locales aux projets dits « participatifs » reste dès lors trop faible.

2007

Manuel d'appui à la décision en matière de gestion participative et de gouvernance environnementale en Afrique centrale

Espaces périurbains d'Afrique centrale et gouvernance environnementale

Aspects de la métallurgie des Sénoufo et des Guéré de Côte d'Ivoire

2001

The prehistoric burials of Shum Laka rockshelter (North-West Cameroon)

Des forêts et des hommes. Un regard sur les populations des forêts tropicales

1994

Situation des populations indigènes des forêts denses humides

Ouvrages édités à titre de seul éditeur ou en collaboration

2022

Cooking with Linguists: Culinary Lexicon and Recipes in selected Bantu Languages

This is not your ordinary cookbook. The recipes and food travels in Cooking with Linguists: Culinary Lexicon and Recipes in Selected Bantu Languages are written to celebrate languages as carriers of unique culinary knowledge. Each chapter contains a culinary lexicon and glossed recipes, but also mouth-watering descriptions of culinary traditions from different corners of the Bantu-speaking area. Enjoy a dainty makeej mâ kusang ni r'lànd (red ant salad in Kanincin, southern Democratic Republic of Congo), a refreshing oshíkúndu (millet drink in Kwanyama, Angola and Namibia), a slice of chinolo (banana bread in Kagulu, Tanzania), various takes on porridge, and many more delicacies.

2019

Technographies

2010

Gestion participative des forêts d'Afrique centrale

La forêt est confrontée à la réalité même des sociétés qui la gèrent. La gestion participative est présentée, reconnue et établie comme la référence des politiques publiques environnementales, l'ultime recours des processus de gestion des forêts d'Afrique centrale, mais elle s'avère aujourd'hui difficile à mettre en œuvre et connaît des fortunes diverses. Comment expliquer ce décalage entre la rhétorique participative et sa mise en pratique localement ? Cet ouvrage collectif propose des réponses à cette question. Il apporte, dans une perspective pluridisciplinaire, un éclairage documenté et critique.

African pottery roulettes, past and present. Techniques, identification and distribution

2008

Des choses, des gestes, des mots

2007

Liber Amicorum Tony Hackens

1997

Les peuples des forêts tropicales

Les conséquences humaines de la déforestation, de la gestion des aires protégées et de la modification des espaces indigènes sont au centre des problématiques abordées dans cette publication.Guidant notre réflexion, des ethnologues et un agronome, provenant d'universités et de laboratoires de recherches européens analysent tant dans une perspective diachronique que synchronique les enjeux des changements actuels pour les habitants des forêts tropicales humides.Abordant ce thème pour le Zaïre, le Cameroun, le Gabon, le Congo, le Brésil, le Vénézuela ainsi que pour la Colombie, les Moluques, la Malaisie, la Papouasie Nouvelle-Guinée et le Vietnam central, ce volume fournit une perspective comparative très riche.

1993

Proceedings of the 9th Congress of the Pan-African Association of Pre-History and Related Studies

Parties d'ouvrages collectifs

2023

Central African Copper

Copper, considered a “red gold,” had a major place in the political economy of Central Africa over the past two millennia. Copper was a rare resource. Its ore was only accessible in a few scattered locations in Central Africa, especially the Copperbelt in southeast Central Africa and the Niari basin in the south of Republic of Congo. Until the massive imports of European alloys beginning in the 16th century, only unalloyed and leaded copper objects were produced and used in Central Africa. The first instance of copper smelting in the region is dated around the 5th century ad, much later than for iron, and it has been mainly used over time as a means of exchange, for jewelry, and as material for artworks and decoration of objects. Different techniques have been used over time and space to produce the metal and manufacture the objects, some of them closely related to iron metallurgy. Smelting took place close to the deposits, and diverse processes relating to sociohistorical factors have been identified. Ingots, produced on the smelting sites, were one of the preferred forms for exchange, acquiring in some cases symbolic and/or monetary value. Manufacturing objects could take place far from the smelting place. Because copper and brass can easily be recycled, metal regularly changed shape to fit local needs and tastes.From the late 1st millennium ad, copper has been exchanged over increasingly long distances in regional networks and, eventually, traded to the Indian and Atlantic Ocean coasts. Rising polities, such as the Kongo Kingdom in the 15th century, would have benefited from access to this resource. More broadly, copper was regularly associated with the expression of power and wealth but was also accessible to a large number of people. In addition to the economic value of copper, metalworking and the figure of the smith were closely associated with power. Copper's physical properties such as color and brightness were also important in its choice as a material for artworks as a way to support and enhance the role of the object.

La constitution de collections céramiques à l'époque coloniale : la mission 1950-1952 de Maurits Bequaert au Kongo-Central

Le Musée royal de l'Afrique centrale abrite d'importantes collections de poteries, tant archéologiques (environ 7500 récipients entiers ou fragmentaires) qu'ethnographiques (environ 4500). Vestige archéologique par excellence et objet de la vie quotidienne omniprésent jusqu'à l'importation massive de vaisselles européennes et asiatiques au cours du 20e siècle, la céramique constitue actuellement une source centrale pour reconstituer l'histoire des sociétés d'Afrique centrale. Cependant, contrairement à d'autres types d'objets plus emblématiques, la question de la constitution de ces collections et de leur provenance est restée sous étudiée. Cet article abordera plus spécifiquement les céramiques collectées par Maurits Bequaert (1892-1973). Ingénieur de formation, il fut chef de la section de Préhistoire du MRAC. Principalement intéressé par la préhistoire et les industries lithiques, il exporta néanmoins une grande quantité poteries lors de deux missions archéologiques au Congo, en 1938-1939 et 1950-1952. Ces objets constituent presque les deux tiers des collections de céramiques archéologiques du MRAC, auxquels s'ajoute presque une centaine de poteries ethnographique. Provenant de contexte divers - notamment funéraires -, leur collecte a parfois mené à des tensions avec leur propriétaire ou les habitant.es des zones investiguées, illustrant les rapports de domination de l'époque et les discordances entre la valeur accordée à ces objets par le collecteur et celle attribuée par leurs propriétaires. Plus largement, mis en relation avec le reste des collections céramiques du MRAC et le profil des principaux collecteurs, ce cas d'étude permettra d'aborder la constitution, dans un contexte colonial, de collections d'objets de la vie quotidienne, longtemps jugés comme de peu de valeurs par l'institution muséale et souvent considérés comme secondaire par les collecteurs eux-mêmes.

2022

La diversité linguistique dans le nord-est de la République Démocratique du Congo

Le nord-est de la République Démocratique du Congo (RDC) compte plus de 90 langues, appartenant aux différents sous-groupes de deux grandes familles linguistiques : les langues nigéro-congolaises (bantu et ubangi) et les langues nilo-sahariennes. Cette diversité linguistique risque de disparaître graduellement. Limitées aux interactions intra-ethniques et concurrencées par les langues majoritaires dans les activités économiques, ces langues minoritaires sont menacées. La politique linguistique congolaise favorise les langues nationales, telles que le lingála et le swahili, et la langue officielle qui est le français. Depuis 2014, les langues autochtones sont admises comme langue d'enseignement. Toutefois, la plupart des langues du nord-est de la RDC n'ont pas bénéficié d'une documentation adéquate permettant le développement de manuels scolaires. L'article insiste sur la nécessité de la documentation des langues de la région, pour les manuels, mais aussi pour enregistrer les langues en danger et pour sauvegarder les savoirs traditionnels pour les générations futures.

La cuisine au bord du fleuve Congo : lexique et recettes en lokele, foma, topoke, heso et mbuza

This chapter is set in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in the tropical rainforest, along the Congo River and its tributaries between Bumba and Kisangani. Birgit Ricquier, Odette Ambouroue and Nicolas Mombaya Liwila present culinary lexicons in five languages, namely Lokele (C55), Foma (C56), Topoke (C53), Heso (C52) and Mbuza (C37). The regional menu revolves around diverse cassava preparations and oil palm products, complemented with fish from the rivers and forest ponds, greens, chicken, or forest bounty such as wild plants, bush meat or caterpillars. The recipes present staples such as a porridge of cassava and plantains (lìtúmá), cassava sticks (“chikwangue”, lòmàtà), and the preparation of greens, for instance sweet potato leaves (ɓátɛm̀ bɛĺ ɛ̀).

2021

An ontological approach to Saharan rock art

Le rétrécissement de l'intérieur : la liberté académique à l'ère de l'Excellence

Upemba Depression

The Upemba Depression (southeast DRC) is unique in providing a deep historical background to the sociopolitical history of Central Africa. The excavation of around three hundred graves, one of the largest groups in sub-Saharan Africa, allowed archaeologists to build a chrono-cultural sequence running from the sixth century ce to the nineteenth century. During the Kamilambian (ca. sixth-eighth century ce), a few scattered ironworking communities were settled in the Upemba Depression. At the end of the first millennium ce, the number of sites increased and two independent - though related - cultures, the Kisalian and the Katotian, flourished. The development of a hierarchical organization of society is displayed by elite burials containing a large amount of goods and status symbols. Fish was one of the main resources of the Upemba Depression and, along with other items, was traded in regional networks for luxury goods such as copper or Indian Ocean shells. Around the fourteenth century, the Kisalian culture was replaced by the Kabambian. Social inequalities became sharper and exchange networks were extended. Material culture suggests that the Upemba Depression was progressively integrated in the Luba kingdom during this period until its full integration in the nineteenth century. Despite major changes throughout the sequence, material culture suggests a cultural continuity between the different archaeological cultures of the Upemba Depression and that political tradition and some prominent symbols of authority of the major Central African polities in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries arose during the first millennium ce.

2020

Language and Archeology

Languages inform us about early ancestors, past contact situations, and innovations. Through language classification, it is possible to trace proto‐speech communities in time and in space. The “Words‐and‐Things” approach allows for insights into the material and sociocultural life of these proto‐speech communities. In order to investigate the causes of language dispersals, linguistic results are usually linked to data from other disciplines, such as archaeology. Methods used to relate results from multiple disciplines include correlation, direct association, and the search for common regional processes. Such multidisciplinary narratives are sometimes criticized for having circular reasoning or not being independently verifiable. A possible solution is the supplemental approach, which recognizes the differences between the data and methodologies of either discipline but proposes that they supplement each other. This, in turn, leads to better hypotheses on those parts of history for which no written texts exist.

Did prehistoric people consider themselves as equals or unequals? A testimony from the last hunter-gatherers of the Eastern Sahara

Copper and Expression of Power and Prestige in Central Africa

2019

The archaeology of sharing immaterial things: social gatherings and the making of collective identities of the Eastern Saharan last hunter-gatherers

Upemba archaeology, Luba ethnography, and vice versa

An uninterrupted archaeological sequence connects the first iron-using occupants of the Upemba Depression, in the center of Africa, to the current Luba. It is thus possible to reconstruct the evolution of the inhabitants of this area over nearly 1, 300 years. In the series of transformations that they have undergone, the continuity of many aspects of their material culture is remarkable, despite the changes that occurred. This provides a sound basis for using the numerous ethnographic data that we have for the Luba to interpret the wealth of archaeological remains, especially for the Kisalian, a culture that started in the eighth century ad. For example, the use of ceremonial axes as a symbol of authority and the use of the hammer/anvil as regalia date to this period. In funerary contexts, children's remains are often under-represented, but this is not the case in Kisalian cemeteries. It means that newborns were probably considered as embodied persons, which is still the case for the Luba. The widespread use of various miniature objects as grave goods can best be understood in the light of the Luba practice of making miniature objects for their children and the spirits. The intriguing presence of unworked caprine or antelope metapodial bones, principally in Kisalian children's graves, can also be explained through ethnographic parallels.

Textile production in Dendi. An ethnographic and historical study of a chain of production

2018

Pottery Chaînes Opératoires as Historical Documents

8 Ethnographic Methods

Historical Linguistics: Loanwords and Borrowing

he study of loanwords, and of language contact more generally, is a useful tool in tracing encounters and exchanges between different communities in the past. Loanwords often come in sets related to specific semantic fields, illustrating the nature of exchanged goods and ideas, as well as the nature of contacts between those communities, for instance, economic exchanges or political dominance. Examples include the adoption of new crops and subsistence techniques, in both ancient and recent periods, and the strong Arabic influence in multiple domains on the Swahili language. Loanwords are but one outcome of language contact. More intense contacts can lead to structural borrowing; to convergence between nonaffiliated languages, resulting in linguistic areas; and to language shift. The languages of so-called pygmy hunter-gatherers are a notorious example of people abandoning their own language in favor of a new one.To identify loanwords and to distinguish them from inherited vocabulary, it is necessary to apply the comparative linguistic method. Irregular sound correspondences and morphological traits, and a continuous distribution across linguistic boundaries are indicative of borrowing. The possibility of semantic analysis and the presence of cognates in related languages may confirm the identity of the donor language. The identification of loanwords suffers from a few drawbacks, however. Some sounds have not changed for centuries or even millennia, preventing the distinction between loans and inherited words. Or loanwords may have become integrated in the phoneme inventory of the recipient language, giving the impression of regular sound correspondences. But even if loans can be recognized as such, the donor language cannot always be traced. Finally, it must be said that the study of loanwords attains the best results when it is based on well-annotated data, with detailed semantic description and a list of regular sound correspondences and adequate classification at hand.

Chapitre 1 : Introduction

Masque-cimier (?)

Chapitre 2 : Historique des recherches archéologiques

Chapitre 9 : stratégies et méthodologies

Chapitre 3 : le milieu physique

Chapitre 11 : fouilles et prospections entre Kisantu et le fleuve Congo

World-Class Universities in a Post-truth World

Chapitre 32 : Regards croisés sur le royaume Kongo

Chapitre 6 : Les débuts de la céramique, de la sédentarisation et de la métallurgie

Chapitre 31: l'histoire du royaume Kongo revisitée par l'archéologie

Les royaumes Kongo et Luba, cultures et sociétés dans le bassin du Congo (jusqu'au XVIIe siècle)

Fouilles et prospections dans le territoire de Luozi

chapitre 19 : Séquence chrono-culturelle de la poterie kongo (13e-19e siècles)

Prospections et sondages dans les zones cuprifères de Boko-Songho et Mindouli (République du Congo)

Production et commerce du cuivre : le cas du bassin du Niari aux 13e et 14e siècles AD

Ceramics Decorated with Woven Motifs: An Archaeological Kongo kingdom Identifier?

Kwara Zeno

Boyeri (BOY-14-SI AND II)

Ethnographic Methods

Crossing Archaeology and Oral Tradition

An Archaeological and Ethnographic Approach to a Site and Its Region

The Site within West African Political and Craft History

Tomboutou (TOU-14-SI)

Molla

Birnin Lafiya (S5)

Kozungu (KOZ-14-SI AND SII)

Karimama (KAR-14-SI)

The pottery

Stratigraphy and Dating: Excavation Units and Associated Dates

Toutokayeri (TTO-14-SI, II AND III)

Birnin Lafiya (S9)

Kompanti (PTI-14-SI)

Bogo Bogo (GOG-14-SI)

Gorouberi (GOB-14-SI AND II)

Madekali (KLI-14-SI AND RC1)

Kusulabu (KUS-14-SI AND SII)

2017

Investigating the History of Subsistence in Rain Forests : some key issues

The ‘Words-and-Things' Method

La méthode 'mots et choses'

A tradition in nine maps

Technologie comparée

Comparative technology

Étude de cas : lingots de cuivre en Afrique centrale

Case study: copper ingots in Central Africa

Pottery Analysis / Analyse de poterie

2016

Who's who? The case of the Luba

Ornithorynque, oryctérope et théranthropes. Les vrais monstres et les autres

On fluxes, connections, and their archaeological manifestations

The current chapter discusses the contributions included in this volume, focusing on four key aspects of the author's relevant ethnographic research in Africa: ‘connectivity', ‘mobility', ‘community' and ‘utility'.

The world is like a beanstalk

Using ethnographical data collected in Niger and Northern Benin between 2002 and 2014, I will retrace the historical trajectory of a pottery style that developed along the Niger River since the end of the 19th century. Spreading irrespectively of major social boundaries such as language or ethnic affiliation, it is nevertheless deeply connected with the history of particular social groups. We will show how changing social relations within craft practice as well as the spatial embeddedness of learning networks arose from both historical and ecological factors, and how these combined to channel the diffusion of a new aesthetics throughout the Niger Valley and in more remote areas.

La méthode BVLM. Formes et enjeux des modes d'évaluation de la Recherche

Commentary: On fluxes, connections and their archaeological manifestations

The current chapter discusses the contributions included in this volume, focusing on four key aspects of the author's relevant ethnographic research in Africa: ‘connectivity', ‘mobility', ‘community' and ‘utility'.

Danses, possessions et génies

2015

Luc de Heusch

Chapter 7 - Who's Who ? The Case of the Luba

Pillages et destructions, sauvetages et restitutions. Leçons du passé et perspectives d'avenir en Afrique centrale

Roads, markets, migrants. The historical trajectory of a male Hausa pottery tradition in Southern Niger

2014

Archaeology of Central Africa

The History of Porridge in Bantuphone Africa, with Words as Main Ingredients

The historical comparative-linguistic analysis of Bantu culinary vocabulary reveals that the stiff porridge widely consumed in Central and Southern Africa today as principal starch food was already known to the first Bantu speech communities. The preparation method changed over time. The early Bantu speakers prepared porridge as a mash from yams and later from plantains. The Proto-East and Proto-Southwest Bantu speech communities knew cereals and made porridge from cereal flour. When cassava was introduced after the Columbian Exchange, this cereal preparation was applied to a tuber in Central Africa. Many communities living in the northwest of the Bantuphone region, however, never adopted the preparation of flour porridge. Moreover, in many communities living in the equatorial rainforest, porridge— be it from cereals or other crops—never attained status as the staple and remained one of many starch food preparations.

2013

Pouvoirs et patrimoines africains: entre matériel et immatériel

Entre patrimoine public et patrimoine privéL'Afrique sub-saharienne possède un riche patrimoine issu des grands royaumes et empires comme ceux du Ghana, du Mali, de l'empire Songhaï, du royaume du Dahomey et de celui du Congo. Certains noms survivent dans les dénominations actuelles des pays.Quand les monuments de Tombouctou sont la proie de destructions inacceptables sous les coups de hordes obscurantistes, ne peut-on se rappeler que le Mali fut grâce à ces empereurs, une terre quasi mythique pour l'Europe et l'Afrique du Nord ? C'était un empire flamboyant où l'on enseignait le droit, la philosophie, l'astronomie, la géographie et la théologie.Les histoires des royaumes restent aujourd'hui un enjeu mémoriel pour des revendications territoriales. Elles dépassent largement la simple curiosité exotique pour les occidentaux et les élites urbanisées des grandes mégalopoles africaines.Les rois traditionnels sont toujours les gardiens, en grande partie, de leur patrimoine si bien qu'il est à la fois public et privé. Ils y pratiquent les rituels, y célèbrent les fêtes traditionnelles et gardent les attributs ancestraux de leur pouvoir.

Chapter 43: Archaeologies of the Bantu expansion

Chapter 60: Recent Farming Communities and States in the Congo Basin and its Environs

Préface

L'archéologie des cultures congolaises

A century of ceramic studies in Africa

Kongo Cuisine and the Middle Passage in Terms of Peanuts

Central Africa

Le son et la forme. Musiques et esthétiques des instruments de musique en ivoire du Nord de la République Démocratique du Congo

2012

D'une histoire à l'autre. Retour sur une théorie des liens entre langues et techniques en Afrique

12 years' treatment demands in Charleroi: a trend towards poly use

Maas, Paul

2011

Technology

Popular conceptions of 'technology' tend to associate that term with activities governed by science and involving important 'hardware' content, i.e., tools, devices, machines. Conversely, 'technique' would pertain to more mundane activities; built upon non-reflexive routines and implying more direct forms of engagements with materials. This view has been severely challenged for the last three decades. As stressed by Haudricourt (1964) and Sigaut (1987), the 'technology' label should more appropriately designate the 'science of techniques', which is above all 'a science of human activities'. This article presents a short overview of the way in which social sciences reinvested the technical domain and renewed it with a more culturally oriented conception of techniques that included its religious and ritual dimensions. It summarizes some of the post-1970 anthropological contributions to the study of techniques. It presents a brief evocation of some questions generated by studies that seek to explore the symbolic dimensions of technical practices.

Fine if I do, fine if I don't

À quoi bon l'ethnoarchéologie ?

Chapter 66: Divine Kings

This article focuses on concept of divine kingship and archaeology. The application of the concept of divine kingship to contemporary cultures and groups is problematic, requiring an in-depth knowledge of how it operates, as well as an awareness of looking back into the past. However, taking into account its complexity, ambiguity, and variability, the concept of divine kingship remains relevant to archaeology when assessing past evidence of political and religious practices. When written sources describe religious beliefs and practices, as well as the political system, it is possible to grasp if there was a king-like figure and to what extent it was assimilated to a divinity, like the pharaoh in ancient Egypt.

Central Africa

Multiscalar analysis of the spatial pattern of forest ecosystems in central Africa justified by the pattern/process paradigm: Two case studies

The pattern/process paradigm justifies the focus of ecological studies on spatial pattern. Two case studies are discussed in which spatial pattern is put forward. The first study analyzes the impact of the definition of forest as a land cover class on the quantification of the spatial pattern of the forest. For the Katanga Province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, it is shown that the interplay of two factors deter-mines the outcome of a fragmentation analysis: the area considered as forested, and the landscape metrics used. The second study disentangles the relation between tree density and understory diversity in the Bururi Forest Nature Reserve in Burundi. The inter-mediate disturbance hypothesis is used to explain the nonlinear relationship between understory diversity and tree density. Cluster analysis and comparisons of understory vegetations from environments with different tree densities, confirmed this link between tree density and understory development. © 2011 by Nova Science Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved.

2010

Exploring the dynamics of African pottery cultures

De l'art d'accommoder les pâtes

Fondée sur une comparaison ethnographique des recettes préparation des pâtes céramiques au sud du Niger, cette étude explore les dynamiques de circulation et de transformation des connaissances techniques. L'accent est mis sur le sens que les artisans donnent à leurs recettes dans la pratique quotidienne de l'activité, ainsi que sur les échelles spatiales, sociales et temporelles auxquelles il faut se placer pour appréhender les mécanismes responsables de la distribution et de l'évolution des façons de faire.

Modern roulettes from Sub-Saharan Africa

Retrieving Food History through Linguistics

L'échec de la sécurisation foncière dans les aires protégées

La gestion par le haut de la redevance forestière annuelle communautaire

Introduction: Des politiques participatives multiformes

Comment concevoir et réussir des projets de gestion participative? Les populations locales participent-elles à la gestion des forêts en Afrique centrale? Cet ouvrage fournit des recommandations pour mener des politiques participatives efficientes. Il apporte, dans une perspective pluridisciplinaire, un éclairage documenté et dresse un bilan des réformes expérimentées dans la sous-région depuis les années 1980. La première partie de l'ouvrage présente une revue historique de l'engagement social des compagnies forestières, puis une étude des mécanismes participatifs au Cameroun et au Gabon. La seconde partie traite de la gestion participative dans les zones cynégétiques et les aires protégées, au Camerou, en République centrafricaine et au Tchad.

Conclusion: les enjeux locaux autour d'un mode de gouvernance anti-participatif

Introduction

2008

Le lien entre gouvernance environnementale et gestion participative est-il viable ?

Le défi africain

Prehistory : Central Africa

Grands travaux publics, grandes opportunités archéologiques? Evaluation d'un siècle d'expériences en Afrique

Cobra : le drôle de totem d'une étrange tribu

Introduction

Limites et potentialités d'une gestion participative en matière d'environnement

Remote control research in Central Africa

Dynamiques participatives et développement local dans le Bassin congolais

Mise en valeur des bas-fonds à Yaoundé, système de production, savoir-faire traditionnel et potentialités d'une agriculture urbaine et périurbaine en développement

Thoughts and adjustments in the potter's backyard

Mother Bella was not a Bella

Ceramics in Africa

2007

University in the World : What for?

2006

Exposing the Ivory Tower

What to expect in excavating the Kongo Kingdom capital

Chapter 6: Phytolith Evidence for the Early Presence of Domesticated Banana (Musa) in Africa

Atlas des traditions céramiques du Niger

2005

The power of symbols and the symbols of power through time: Probing the Luba Past

From Pottery Groups to Ethnic Groups in Central Africa

The source

Potières et poteries de Dia

Forest management decentralization in Cameroon

Fonction et dynamique des pratiques culturelles

2004

Central Africa : Knowing Iron

Image et usage de l'argent de la diaspora congolaise

Agir à la place -et en dépit- de l'État

A Kinshasa, la vie tient du miracle

2003

Synthèse des données archéologiques récentes sur l'Afrique centrale forestière. Des mosaïques dans la quatrième dimension

The banana phytolith as a direct marker of early agriculture: A review of evidence

2001

Globalizing Local Pottery Studies

Drawing on two case studies whose scope range from the local to the continental levels, it is shown how a minute comparison of technical behavior and social prescriptions related to pottery manufacture in present-day Africa allows for the reconstruction of varying processes of social interaction. Considering issues such as language expansion, the creation and maintenance of social boundaries and the development of particular economic structures, the paper first aim is to exploit ethnographical observations for building general models of interpretation. It also illustrates how the comparison of certain elements of the material world may help in the reconstruction of recent and more distant historical processes.

Patrimoines africains: plaidoyer pour une approche plurielle

2000

Hors des aires de conservation

Vivre à Mvi'ilimengalé

Terroirs coutumiers et plan d'aménagement

1999

Tracking the banana: Its significance in Early Agriculture

Les paradoxes du discours sur la route

Pour une autre archéologie de la poterie

1998

Baka

Fang

Gyeli

Pahouin(s)

Les Pygmées du Gabon

Interaction of Knowledge Forms in Conservation

Savoirs indigènes et contraintes anthropologiques dans le cadre des programmes de conservation en Afrique centrale

Indigenous Knowledge and Anthropological Constraints in the Context of Conservation Programs in Central Africa

Social and Technical Identity in a Clay Cristal Ball

1997

Plan de sauvetage du patrimoine de l'Afrique francophone

L'esprit, l'igname et l'éléphant

La nature des uns et la nature des autres

L'Afrique Equatoriale

1996

Re/Constructing Luba Past

A comparative approach to hunting rituals among Baka Pygmies (Southeastern Cameroon)

1994

Archéologie

Skimming through Potter's Agenda

1993

The mask that is hungry for yams

1992

Entre le Village et la Forêt

1987

L'Afrique centrale

1985

The Smith's Myth and the Origin of Leadership in Central Africa

1980

Préhistoire de l'Afrique centrale

Direction d'ouvrages: chapitres rédigés par des membres de l'ULB

2018

Squelettes des cimetières de Kindoki et Ngongo Mbata

Chapitre 20 La poterie kongo moderne (19e et 20e siècles)

Les épées de la fin du 17e siècle au 18e siècle du cimetière de Kindoki

2017

Architecture

Architecture

2003

Le leadership en représentations :