Article ID: CBB001421941

The Impact of West African Trade on the Distribution of Chimpanzee and Elephant Populations (Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Senegal, 19th--20th Century) (2014)

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This article elaborates a relational historical geography of human, chimpanzee and elephant populations, working mainly from precolonial and early colonial (nineteenth and twentieth century) narratives by travellers to regions now corresponding to parts of Guinea, Guinea-Bissau and Senegal. It then compares a global `West African trade' model of human and animal population's spatial distribution with elements of an `East African settlement colony' model drawn from other historical research. This perspective balances mainstream evolutionary approaches to animal biogeography with the human history, ecology and the geopolitics of their habitats. Taking such historical processes into account helps to unravel contrastive spatial and temporal dynamics of large mammal populations and to raise new questions about the anthropogenic causes of present-day population distributions.

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Authors & Contributors
Kusiak, Pauline Marie
Sohoni, Pushkar
Brydan, David
Baum, Robert M.
Barnard, Timothy P.
Strother, Christian
Concepts
Colonialism
Trade
Animals
Travel; exploration
France, colonies
Cross-cultural interaction; cultural influence
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
18th century
21st century
20th century, early
17th century
Places
West Africa
Senegal
Africa
Guinea
India
Mikomeseng (city)
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