Deep Roots: Rice Farmers in West Africa and the African Diaspora Contributor(s): Fields-Black, Edda L. (Author) |
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ISBN: 025301610X ISBN-13: 9780253016102 Publisher: Indiana University Press OUR PRICE: $28.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2014 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - History | Africa - West - Technology & Engineering | History |
Dewey: 633.180 |
Series: Blacks in the Diaspora |
Physical Information: 0.62" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.93 lbs) 296 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. - Chronological Period - 18th Century - Cultural Region - South Atlantic - Cultural Region - South - Cultural Region - West Africa - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Geographic Orientation - Georgia - Geographic Orientation - South Carolina - Topical - Black History |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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. |