Deep Roots (inbunden)
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Format
Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
296
Utgivningsdatum
2008-09-25
Upplaga
illustrated ed
Förlag
Indiana University Press
Illustrationer
20 b&w photographs, 5 maps
Dimensioner
234 x 158 x 25 mm
Vikt
635 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9780253352194

Deep Roots

Rice Farmers in West Africa and the African Diaspora

av Edda L Fields-Black
Inbunden,  Engelska, 2008-09-25
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Mangrove rice farming on West Africa's Rice Coast was the mirror image of tidewater rice plantations worked by enslaved Africans in 18th-century South Carolina and Georgia. This book reconstructs the development of rice-growing technology among the Baga and Nalu of coastal Guinea, beginning more than a millennium before the transatlantic slave trade. It reveals a picture of dynamic pre-colonial coastal societies, quite unlike the static, homogenous pre-modern Africa of previous scholarship. From its examination of inheritance, innovation, and borrowing "Deep Roots" fashions a theory of cultural change that encompasses the diversity of communities, cultures, and forms of expression in Africa and the African Diaspora.
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  • Rice

    Rice

    Francesca Bray, Peter A Coclanis, Edda L Fields-Black, Dagmar Schafer

    Rice today is food to half the world's population. Its history is inextricably entangled with the emergence of colonialism, the global networks of industrial capitalism, and the modern world economy. The history of rice is currently a vital and in...

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"An imaginative book ... The writing is good and the ideas important." Judith Carney, author of Black Rice: The African Origins of Rice Cultivation in the Americas "Fields-Black ... Offers important new insights into West African agricultural history and the dynamics of diasporic connections." LaRay Denzer, Northwestern University "Fields-Black has written an important groundbreaking agricultural and Diasporic cultural history." oGeorgia Historical Quarterly

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Edda L. Fields-Black is an associate professor at Carnegie Mellon University, specializing in pre-colonial and West African history. With research interests extending into the African diaspora, for more than 15 years Fields-Black has traveled to and lived in Guinea, Sierra Leone, South Carolina, and Georgia to uncover the history of African rice farmers and rice cultures.

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List of Tables; OrthographyIntroduction1.The Rio Nunez Region: A Small Corner of West Africa's Rice Coast Region; 2. The First-Comers and the Roots of Coastal Rice-growing Technology; 3. The Newcomers and the Seeds of Tidal Rice-Growing Technology; 4. Coastal Collaboration and Specialization: Flowering of Tidal Rice-Growing Technologies; 5. The Strangers and the Branches of Coastal Rice-growing Technology, c.1500 to 1800; 6. Feeding the Slave Trade: The Trade in Rice and Captives from West Africa's Rice CoastConclusionAppendix I.1 Fieldwork Interviews; Appendix I.2 Rice Terminology in Atlantic Languages Spoken in the Coastal Rio Nunez Region; Notes; Bibliography; Index

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