Sociedade Felupe: Desintegração ou transformação social?

This paper aims to analyse some of the changes and social transformations occurred in recent years in the internal dynamics of the Felupe (or Joola-ajamaat), an agrarian society in the north-west of Guinea-Bissau. Well adapted to the environment, the Felupe have the necessary knowledge and technique...

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Main Author: Lúcia Bayan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Instituto Universitário de Lisboa 2015-06-01
Series:Cadernos de Estudos Africanos
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/cea/1789
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description This paper aims to analyse some of the changes and social transformations occurred in recent years in the internal dynamics of the Felupe (or Joola-ajamaat), an agrarian society in the north-west of Guinea-Bissau. Well adapted to the environment, the Felupe have the necessary knowledge and techniques that allowed them to maintain food security and social cohesion for centuries. This society currently faces sudden changes of parameters such as climate changes, world market prices instability or reduction in labour availability. Based on literature review and field work carried out during 2009 and 2012, this paper identifies the strategies adopted by this society to respond to the constraints inherent to the dynamics of globalization.
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spelling doaj-art-e3d8d98fa4584fa38557f07c87a7185b2025-08-20T01:54:15ZengInstituto Universitário de LisboaCadernos de Estudos Africanos1645-37942182-74002015-06-0129597610.4000/cea.1789Sociedade Felupe: Desintegração ou transformação social?Lúcia BayanThis paper aims to analyse some of the changes and social transformations occurred in recent years in the internal dynamics of the Felupe (or Joola-ajamaat), an agrarian society in the north-west of Guinea-Bissau. Well adapted to the environment, the Felupe have the necessary knowledge and techniques that allowed them to maintain food security and social cohesion for centuries. This society currently faces sudden changes of parameters such as climate changes, world market prices instability or reduction in labour availability. Based on literature review and field work carried out during 2009 and 2012, this paper identifies the strategies adopted by this society to respond to the constraints inherent to the dynamics of globalization.https://journals.openedition.org/cea/1789Guinea-BissauFelupeglobalizationfood securitymigrationresilience
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Sociedade Felupe: Desintegração ou transformação social?
Cadernos de Estudos Africanos
Guinea-Bissau
Felupe
globalization
food security
migration
resilience
title Sociedade Felupe: Desintegração ou transformação social?
title_full Sociedade Felupe: Desintegração ou transformação social?
title_fullStr Sociedade Felupe: Desintegração ou transformação social?
title_full_unstemmed Sociedade Felupe: Desintegração ou transformação social?
title_short Sociedade Felupe: Desintegração ou transformação social?
title_sort sociedade felupe desintegracao ou transformacao social
topic Guinea-Bissau
Felupe
globalization
food security
migration
resilience
url https://journals.openedition.org/cea/1789
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