À propos des modes de construction du territoire en pays jóola : sources écrites, traditions villageoises et matériaux ethnographiques by Odile Journet-Diallo

“…In the accounts about the “Felupos” (now called Dyola) left by successive travelers who visited the coastal area of the “southern rivers” between the 15th and the 18th century, two key points stand out: the level of techniques used in rice-farming (evidence of settlement in the distant past) and the hostility toward, and refusal of, trade with white people. Texts from the 18th century provide a glimpse of the complexity of territorial divisions, which becomes even clearer in the writings left by 19th-century colonial officials. …”
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