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Riverbed after scooping / Lit de rivière après l’écopage, August 2023, Photo by Peter Lambertz

Underwater Architecture : Scoop Fishing (kopepa) and the Psychology of Fish (written by Peter Lambertz)

Birgit Ricquier November 30, 2023 No Comments

* names with an asterisk are pseudonyms We arrive at the nganda (fishing camp) of Likau around 9.30 am, together with Michel (the commander of

Justin Boende (anthropologie, Unikis), Peter Lambertz (anthropologie, ULB), Victor Yaaya (sociologie, Unikis), Lajoie Vutseme (anthropologie, Unikis) & Emmanuel Makoka (philosophie, Unikis)

Techniques of the River. Moments from field work in Tshopo Province, DR Congo (written by Peter Lambertz)

Birgit Ricquier November 30, 2023 No Comments

In August 2023, the Kisangani-based research team consisting of Victor Yaaya (Sociology, Unikis), Justin Boende (Anthropology, Unikis), Lajoie Vutseme (Anthropology, Unikis), Emmanuel Makoka (Philosophy, Unikis)

International Conference, Kisangani (ULB – UNIKIS): Social spaces, languages, and material culture in the history of the northern Congo Basin ~ POSTPONED! New dates: June 17th – 21st, 2024

Birgit Ricquier June 14, 2023 No Comments

The conference invites scholars in anthropology, archaeology, linguistics, history, and related disciplines to a joint reflection on social, linguistic and material differentiations and interactions marking

Forest fishing in Northeastern DR Congo: anthropological research on comparative technologies (by Peter Lambertz)

Birgit Ricquier May 5, 2023 No Comments

Picture: Placing of the fish trap with spring Lisombo (Mbole Yaima), village of Yamboka, Opala territory, Tshopo, RDC. Photo: Victor Yaaya, June 2023. The impressive

Emmanuel Ngbanga Bandombele (linguiste, UNIKIS) sur le terrain

The Major Linguistic Fieldwork Campaign of the BANTURIVERS project, 2021-2022: 50 Bantu, 1 Ubangi and 3 Central-Sudanic language varieties covered

Birgit Ricquier May 2, 2023 No Comments

From March 2021 to December 2022, David Kopa wa Kopa of the BANTURIVERS team and Nicolas Mombaya Liwila, Emmanuel Ngbanga Bandombele, and François Abuka Balabala

Presentations @ international conferences, 2021

Birgit Ricquier December 6, 2021 No Comments

“Extracting the Past from the Present”: International and Interdisciplinary Conference on African Precolonial History (March 1st-5th, 2021)

Birgit Ricquier March 31, 2021 No Comments
Extracting the past from the present, 2010, picture by Birgit Ricquier

“Extracting the Past from the Present”: International and Interdisciplinary Conference on African Precolonial History ~ ONLINE CONFERENCE!

Birgit Ricquier June 10, 2020 2 Comments

From March 1st to March 5th, 2021, the ULB and RMCA will welcome international scholars from diverse disciplines to discuss methods and the latest results regarding the African precolonial past.

The road to Ubundu, 2020, picture by Shingo Takamura

The Novel Coronavirus Pandemic: Its Impact on Fieldwork and the People of the DRCongo

Shingo Takamura June 9, 2020 No Comments

When a pandemic puts fieldwork to an end and demands repatriation.

David Kopa wa Kopa, interview sur la langue mokpá, Batikamondji, 20/02/20

Contact between Mokpá and neighboring languages at the terminus ad quem of the Lualaba and a quo of the Congo River at Kisangani

David Kopa wa Kopa May 14, 2020 No Comments

First linguistic fieldwork, in the region south of Kisangani, for David’s doctoral research.

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