Deep Roots

Rice Farmers in West Africa and the African Diaspora

von Edda L. Fields-Black

298 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Reihe: Indiana University Press (IPS)
• ISBN: 9780253016102
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.09.2008
• Größe: 234 x 156 mm
• Verlag: Indiana University Press