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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fields-Black, Edda L.
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2008.
Series:Blacks in the diaspora.
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Table of 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.