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

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

Fields-Black, Edda L.

Paperback

Series: Blacks in the Diaspora

African HistoryTechnology & EngineeringBlack American Studies

ISBN10: 025301610X
ISBN13: 9780253016102
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: Jul 11 2014
Pages: 296
Weight: 0.93
Height: 0.62 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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.

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