Roger Blench: Papers and Field Materials: Ethnoscience

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1. PLANTS AND VEGETATION

1. Plant names in African languages

Language	Click to see PDF version
Dagbani (Gur, Northern Ghana)	Dagbani plant names
Hausa (Afroasiatic, Nigeria, Niger)	Hausa plant names
Nupe (Benue-Congo, Nigeria)	Nupe plant names
Fulfulde (West Atlantic, Nigeria)	Fulfulde plant names

2. Trees

Title	Status	Click to see PDF version
Unnatural names for natural things	Conference paper SAFA 2000	Unnatural names
Cultural and biological interactions in the savanna woodlands of Northern Ghana	Conference paper Oxford 2004 in press?	Download
The intertwined history of the silk-cotton and baobab in West Africa.	Conference paper Groningen 2003 In press	Silk-cotton and baobab

2. MAMMALS

Title	Status	Download PDF
Larger mammals of the Niger Delta. By Bruce Powell. 1995	Unpublished report	Wildlife study
Lexical avoidance taboos and the reconstruction of names for large animals in Niger-Congo, an African language phylum. Paper given at a symposium in Paris 2003 and published 2007	Published	Lexical avoidance

3. CROPS AND AGRICULTURE

Title	Date	Status	PDF version or Webshow
New World cultigens in Nigeria	1998	Published	New World cultigens
Bantu cultivated plants	1996	Published	Bantu cultivated plants
Agriculture in NE Nigeria	1997	Published	Agriculture in NE Nigeria
Diffusion of maize in Nigeria	1994	Published	Maize in Nigeria
Prehistoric transmission of crops between Africa and India	2003	Published	Africa-India crop movement
From the mountains to the valleys: SE Asian ethnolinguistic geography	2005	Published	Peopling of SE Asia
Fruits and arboriculture in the Indo-Pacific region	2005	Published	Indo-Pacific fruits
Enset culture and its history in highland Ethiopia	2003	in press	Enset
Austronesian impact on West Africa: crop evidence	2007	Unpublished	Austronesian-West Africa
Using Linguistics To Reconstruct African Subsistence Systems: Comparing Crop Names To Trees And Livestock	2007	in press	Using linguistics
Little-known African tubers	n.d.	In prep.	Little-known African tubers
A history of fruits on mainland SE Asia. EurASEAA conference paper, Bougon September 2006.	2006 2007	Webshow in press	Webshow SE Asian fruits
Bananas and plantains in Africa; re-interpreting the linguistic evidence. Precirculated for the session ‘Banana: the neglected history’ at WAC VI, Dublin June 28^th, 2008, convened by Edmond De Langhe, Tim Denham & Luc Vrydaghs	2008	Unpublished	Musa

4. LIVESTOCK

Title		Status	Click to see PDF version
History of pigs in Africa	2000	Published	History of pigs in Africa
History of African equines	2000	Published	History of African equines
Minor African livestock species	2000	Published	Minor African livestock species
Chickens in history	2001	Published	Chickens in history
Prehistory of African ruminant livestock, horses and ponies	1993	Published	African ruminant livestock

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