Deep Roots: Rice Farmers in West Africa and the African Diaspora (Blacks in the Diaspora) - Softcover

Fields-Black, Edda L.

 
9780253016102: Deep Roots: Rice Farmers in West Africa and the African Diaspora (Blacks in the Diaspora)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 025301610X ISBN 13: 9780253016102
Verlag: Indiana University Press, 2014

Inhaltsangabe

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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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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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Verlag
Indiana University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2014
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
025301610X
ISBN 13 
9780253016102
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
298
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Mare Nostrum Group B.V.
gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk

Doelen 72
Breda
4831 GR
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