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Deep roots rice farmers in West Africa and the African diaspora
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Deep roots [electronic resource] : rice farmers in West Africa and the African diaspora / Edda L. Fields-Black.
ISBN
0253002966
9780253002969
0253352193 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780253352194 (cloth : alk. paper)
Published
Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2008. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2012)
Physical Description
1 online resource (xvi, 277 p. :) ill., maps ;
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Project MUSE - UPCC 2012 Archival Complete Foundation Collection
Project MUSE - UPCC 2012 Books Archival Subscription Plan
Project MUSE - UPCC 2012 History Foundation Collection
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 13, 2012
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-256) and index.
Contents
The Rio Nunez region : a small corner of West Africa's rice coast region
The first-comers and the roots of coastal rice-growing technology
The newcomers and the seeds of tidal rice-growing technology
Coastal collaboration and specialization : flowering of tidal rice-growing technologies
The strangers and the branches of coastal rice-growing technology
Feeding the slave trade : the trade in rice and captives from West Africa's rice coast
Conclusion
Appendix 1 : fieldwork interviews
Appendix 2 : rice terminology in Atlantic languages spoken in the coastal Rio Nunez region.
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