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kilometres away, only a few thousand square metres of herbaceous savannah mark the
small Ankave hamlets, and it takes a smoke rising to make out a shelter in the forest.

This striking contrast between the landscapes produced by otherwise broadly related
societies (Bonnemère 1993a) is just one manifestation of the diversity of social and
techno-economic organisation found among the Anga. Contrary to appearances, the vast
expanses of forest in which the Ankave live are no less a cultural production than the neat
chequerboard of gardens and domestic enclosures in an Anga valley in the highlands. The
Ankave offer an opportunity to understand how a particular socio-cultural system - in
which several forest trees have a prominent place - and an original mode of forest
management, which sees farmers regularly moving deep into the rainforest, even to the
point of adopting semi-nomadic hunter-gatherer behaviour, relate to each other. The
present work is only one step in this endeavour.

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