According to the population census of 1975, the Central Afric2n Republic counts 1.713.000 inhabitants. The mean density is of 4 inhab./km ,but there is a great disproportion between the northern region and the central - sout¬hern one, more densely populated /0. M. S., 1977/. In this area 53 % of the population are represented by the Banda, settled about in the XVIII century to escape the Nubian slave - raids from the east. The Banda belong to the equatqrial branch of the eastern Nigritic peoples /Murdock, 1959/. In the south they adjoin to the Ngbandi-Yakoma river popu¬lations, who live along the right /Central Africa/ and left /Zaire/ banks of the Upper and Middle Ubangui river. The Ngbandi-Yakoma are a very homogene-ous fisher group speaking a Sudanic language of the eastern stock. Their eastern neighbours are the N•Zakara and Azande. The "Basse Kotto" District is included in the savanna belt, l.n the sou¬thern country of the central area. It is prevalently inhabited by the Yakpa, and Banda tribes, busy at farming /cotton, coffee, food growing to family use, manioc, sesame and peanut/, by the Mbugu, farmer populations too, with an uncertain ethnic-linguistic position and by the Sango, belonging to the Ngbandi-Yakoma group. The language of this population is the most diffused in the Ubangui region since 1930. The Yakpa, Mbugu and Sango are unknown from the bio - anthropological viewpoint. For this reason we have considered very interesting to carry out such a survey to verify on biological basis too, the Mbugu•s ethnic-linguis¬tic position among the residual groups, descendants by the ancient Neolithic Cushitic immigrants, at present settled isolatedly north of the Lake Tanga¬nyika /Murdock, 1959; Biasutti, 1967/ or their position among the Banda /Cirard, 1901/. For this purpose we have compared the Mbugu with the Yakpa and Sango of the "Basse Kotto" regarding to the distribution of several genetic polymor¬phisms.
Spedini, G., Walter, H., Capucci, E., Fuciarelli, M.f., Rickards, O. (1982). A bio-anthropological study on the Central African Mbugu, Sango and Yakpa: some genetic erythrocyte and serum polymorphisms. In J. Jelínek (a cura di), Modern man and his biological evolution: selected papers of the 2. Congress of the European anthropological association, Brno 1980 (pp. 21-27). Brno : Moravské muzeum, Ústav Anthropos.
A bio-anthropological study on the Central African Mbugu, Sango and Yakpa: some genetic erythrocyte and serum polymorphisms
FUCIARELLI, MARIA FELICITA;RICKARDS, OLGA
1982-01-01
Abstract
According to the population census of 1975, the Central Afric2n Republic counts 1.713.000 inhabitants. The mean density is of 4 inhab./km ,but there is a great disproportion between the northern region and the central - sout¬hern one, more densely populated /0. M. S., 1977/. In this area 53 % of the population are represented by the Banda, settled about in the XVIII century to escape the Nubian slave - raids from the east. The Banda belong to the equatqrial branch of the eastern Nigritic peoples /Murdock, 1959/. In the south they adjoin to the Ngbandi-Yakoma river popu¬lations, who live along the right /Central Africa/ and left /Zaire/ banks of the Upper and Middle Ubangui river. The Ngbandi-Yakoma are a very homogene-ous fisher group speaking a Sudanic language of the eastern stock. Their eastern neighbours are the N•Zakara and Azande. The "Basse Kotto" District is included in the savanna belt, l.n the sou¬thern country of the central area. It is prevalently inhabited by the Yakpa, and Banda tribes, busy at farming /cotton, coffee, food growing to family use, manioc, sesame and peanut/, by the Mbugu, farmer populations too, with an uncertain ethnic-linguistic position and by the Sango, belonging to the Ngbandi-Yakoma group. The language of this population is the most diffused in the Ubangui region since 1930. The Yakpa, Mbugu and Sango are unknown from the bio - anthropological viewpoint. For this reason we have considered very interesting to carry out such a survey to verify on biological basis too, the Mbugu•s ethnic-linguis¬tic position among the residual groups, descendants by the ancient Neolithic Cushitic immigrants, at present settled isolatedly north of the Lake Tanga¬nyika /Murdock, 1959; Biasutti, 1967/ or their position among the Banda /Cirard, 1901/. For this purpose we have compared the Mbugu with the Yakpa and Sango of the "Basse Kotto" regarding to the distribution of several genetic polymor¬phisms.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
