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Deep Roots: Rice Farmers in West Africa and the African Diaspora

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Availability:In StockContributor:Edda L. Fields-BlackSeries:Blacks in the Diaspora (Hardcover)Publish date:2014-07-11Pages:296
Language:EnglishPublisher:Indiana University PressISBN-13:9780253016102ISBN-10:025301610XUPC:9780253016102Book Category:Social Science, History, Technology & EngineeringBook Subcategory:Ethnic Studies, Africa, HistoryBook Topic:American, WestSize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.62 inchesWeight:0.9304Product ID:SCMSQ1M9DJ

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.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Indiana University PressISBN-13:9780253016102ISBN-10:025301610XUPC:9780253016102Book Category:Social Science, History, Technology & EngineeringBook Subcategory:Ethnic Studies, Africa, HistoryBook Topic:American, WestSize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.62 inchesWeight:0.9304Product ID:SCMSQ1M9DJ

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.


Publisher: Indiana University Press

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