Fusion foodways of Africa's Gold Coast in the Atlantic era

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Fusion foodways of Africa's Gold Coast in the Atlantic era

by J.D. La Fleur

（The Atlantic world : Europe, Africa and the Americas, 1500-1830 / editors, Wim Klooster, Benjamin Schmidt, v. 26）

Brill, 2012

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-210) and index

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As most people in Atlantic-era West Africa-as in contemporary Europe and the Americas-were farmers, fields and gardens were the primary terrain where they engaged the opportunities and challenges of nascent globalization. Agricultural changes and culinary cross-currents from the Gold Coast indicate that Africans engaged the Atlantic world not with passivity but as full partners with others on continents whose histories have enjoyed longer, and greater, scholarly attention. The most important 'seeds of change' are not to be found in the DNA of crops and critters carried across the seas but instead in the creativity and innovation of the people who engaged the challenges and opportunities of the Atlantic World.

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List of Maps, Illustrations, and Word Lists Preface and Acknowledgements Notes on Linguistic Evidence and African Languages 1. Finding Food in Early Afro-Atlantic History Africanist Historiography of Pre-Colonial Agriculture Themes and Structures 2. Introducing the Land to Culture, 25,000 BCE to circa 1400 CE Early Foraging to 25,000 BCE Specialized Foraging, 25,000 BCE to 10,000 BCE Intensified Foraging from 10,000 BCE Integrating Crops and Critters into Hunting, Gathering, and Foraging Initial Farming from 500 BCE Mature Farming, circa 1400 CE 3. Seeds of Change: Early African Experimentation in the Atlantic Era The Agro-Historical Milieu Plantains Maize Asian Rice 4. Reap What You Sow: The Profits and Perils of the New Starchy Crops Going for Gold with Plantains Allada Communities and Culinary Cross-Currents Baked Bread and Biscuits Kenkey Opportunities Brewing Sowing and Savoring Wealth Insecurity and Impoverishment amid Scarcity and Violence Suffering in Times of Plenty 5. The Porcupine's Shame: Bearing the Burden of Cassava Culture Problems in the Earliest Records of Introduction Introducing Cassava Africanizing Cassava Culture Outsiders and Renewed Innovation with Cassava Colonial Postscript 6. Finding History in Early Afro-Atlantic Foodways Works Cited Index

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