Small-scale fisheries (SSF) are poorly documented, yet 90% of the 120 million employed in capture fisheries work in the SSF sector and >1 billion people globally rely on fish as an important source of protein. There is a lack of data on the status of the majority of fisheries in…
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My field research for this dissertation consisted of four seasons of archaeological survey and excavation along the Matitanana and neighboring rivers on Madagascar's southeastern coast. The Antemoro people who live in the area today have long recorded their history and oral trad…
Saisis par les violences d'actualité, les écrivains de la francophonie se penchent sur les questions de victimisation et de discours mystificateurs, pour éviter que ne sombre dans l'oubli l'être humain placé au centre des conflits, tel que le dirait Milan Kundera. L'être en rela…
The coming to voice of the African woman is a topic of increasing importance in francophone African literary studies. Even more significant are the discourses that portray women who develop new subjectivities through the experience of displacement and while living in Europe. Thi…
French sociologist Claude Fischler has said that food is central to our sense of identity as individuals, as family members and as members of larger groups. This dissertation examines the relationship between food and identity in the context of the culture and history of the peo…
The myrrh genus, Commiphora , comprises a clade of nearly 200 species of shrubs and trees that grow in warm tropical regions in Africa, Madagascar, the Arabian Peninsula, the Indian sub-continent, and South America. Commiphora is the most species-rich genus in the frankincense a…
Madagascar’s lemurs are the most endangered group of mammals in the world, with 94% of species threatened with extinction. Forest loss is one the greatest threat to these arboreal primates, but hunting, habitat degradation, and climate change also threaten their survival. Lemurs…