Roger Blench
Overseas Development Institute
63 Papers
372 Citations
Roger Blench is an academic researcher from Overseas Development Institute. The author has contributed to research in topics: Prehistory & Bantu languages. The author has an hindex of 9, co-authored 63 publications.
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'You can't go home again' Pastoralism in the new millennium
Roger Blench,Mallam Dendo +1 more
- 01 Jan 2006
TL;DR: Blench et al. as discussed by the authors presented an institutional home/correspondence research Fellow at the Overseas Development Institute 8, Guest Road 111, Westminster Bridge Road Cambridge CB1 2AL London, SE1 7JD.
The Austronesians in Madagascar and Their Interaction with the Bantu of the East African Coast: surveying the Linguistic Evidence for Domestic and Translocated Animals
Roger Blench,Kay Williamson +1 more
- 01 Jan 2008
TL;DR: The Malagasy language is generally considered part of the Barito languages of Borneo and these, in turn, have recently been linked to the Sama-Bajaw group.
The intertwined history of the silk-cotton and baobab
Roger Blench,Mallam Dendo +1 more
- 01 Jan 2006
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reviewed the ethnobotany of both species and the evidence for their dispersal in both prehistoric and historical times and suggested that the accepted models are at best problematic.