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Soft cover. Condition: Good. Paperback, 487pp, NOT ex-library. Multilingual: introduction and 17 papers in French & 19 papers in English & 1 in German. Pages in good+ condition, with a small indentation to the tip of lower outer corner of a portion of leaves, minor wear to tips of other corners; remain clean and bright throughout with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Cover shows gentle shelfwear, short creases to corners, a light diagonal crease to lower rear panel. Mild creasing of the spine. --- Contents: Dimensions naturelles des problèmes de l'eau dans le bassin du lac Tchad; Drought Chronology Dating in the Lake Chad Basin; Les ressources en eau du Départment de Diffa; *dyi/*'gyi, *ma'- & *am in Non-Khoisan African Languages; Vocabulary of Water in Chadic; L'eau dans la langue tamashaq; Vocabulary of Water and Fishing in Some Hausa Dialects; Eau et histoire du peuplement, Tchad; Stone Monuments: A Possible Means of Research of Water History; Chin Tafidet, village néolithique des rives de l'Ighazer, contexte géologique/stratigraphique; Ethno-Archaeological Survey of Water Related to Activities of Man Along the Komadugu Yobe Valley; History & Future of Water Management; Environment Development and Water in the Fragile Sahelian Zone of Nigeria and Structural Adjustment; Failure of Alau Reservoir to Fill: A Legacy of Unconfined, Leaking Basin of the Mega-Chad Floor; Cow Emerges From the Water: Myths of the Origin of Cattle; Significance of Water in the Kupto Society, Northern Nigeria; Ngamdo: Community's Thirst for Water; Rituals & Ceremonies of Rainmaking Among the Guruntum and Bubbure People; Spiritual Dimensions of Water in the Muri Mountains; Water & Iron: Phases in the History of Sukur; Rainmakers & Problematics of Power in Fali Society; Rain & Power: Rain Making as a Political Discourse Among the Kapsiki; Das Wasser in den Geschichten; Water & the Mafa; L'eau dans les monts du Mandara; Princes, pluies & puits dans les montagnes Mofu-Diamaré; Maîtrise de l'eau et contrôle de l'érosion; Eau et pouvoir dans les monts Mandara: Choix techniques & hydralique villageoise; Eau et pouvoir chez le peuple toupouri; La pêche rituelle des mares en pays masa; Gens de la terre & l'eau au Tchad; Role of Water in Some Chadic Tales; La place de l'eau dans la justice traditionnelle tchadienne; L'homme et l'eau au Tchad: aspects juridiques; Droit foncier & aménagement agricole, Borkou occidental; Les lacs d'ounianga & Ounia; Les populations: des sociétés non-hydrauliques.