xi, 330 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, color maps ; 24 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-326).
Contents
Part I. From Iowa to the bonobos of Équateur. Naked apes, furry apes, godlike apes ; Kinshasa ; Équateur ; Mbandaka to Djolu ; A sense of place ; The bonobos of Kokolopori ; Yetee -- Part II. Grass roots. Albert Lotana Lokasola ; From slave state to failed state ; Sally Jewell Coxe ; Africa's great war ; Michael Hurley ; Economics around the campfire ; Human cultures and cultured animals ; Territory and power -- Part III. Sankuru. André Tusumba ; Defending the vocation ; Viral conservation ; The river -- Epilogue : the red queen.