Deep roots : rice farmers in West Africa and the African diaspora

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Deep roots : rice farmers in West Africa and the African diaspora

Edda L. Fields-Black

(Blacks in the diaspora)

Indiana University Press, c2008

  • : cloth

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-256) and index

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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.

目次

List of Tables Orthography Introduction 1. 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 Coast Conclusion Appendix 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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