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Genre/Form: | Electronic books History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Fields-Black, Edda L. Deep roots. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2008 (DLC) 2008007846 (OCoLC)212908715 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Edda L Fields-Black |
ISBN: | 9780253002969 0253002966 9781282238299 1282238299 9786612238291 6612238291 |
OCLC Number: | 434586616 |
Language Note: | English. |
Reproduction Notes: | Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. MiAaHDL |
Description: | 1 online resource (xvi, 277 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Details: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
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. |
Series Title: | Blacks in the diaspora. |
Responsibility: | Edda L. Fields-Black. |
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This study is an excellent contribution to the growing literature on food in precolonial Africa. . . . [I]t is a trailblazing work in its innovative amalgamation of archaeological, linguistic, and written source materials. -- Jeremy Rich * International Journal of African Historical Studies * This study is an excellent contribution to the growing literature on food in precolonial Africa. . . . [I]t is a trailblazing work in its innovative amalgamation of archaeological, linguistic, and written source materials. * International Journal of African Historical Studies * Deep Roots, an important and innovative book, pioneers a multidisciplinary methodology, which substantially compensates for the lack of written documentation . . . and archeology data during the formative period of the transatlantic slave trade in Africa. * American Historical Review * Fields-Black has written an important book, thoroughly researched, persuasively argued, and engagingly written. It adds a major new chapter to our understanding of the African diaspora. Vol. 76, No. 3, August 2010 * The Journal of Southern History * Fields-Black has written an important groundbreaking agricultural and Diasporic cultural history. * Georgia Historical Quarterly * A stimulating study that deserves attention in graduate seminars . . . in African history . . . and in African diaspora studies. December, 2010 * HISTORIAN * While Deep Roots is a scholarly endeavor anyone interested in South Carolina's rice history or African history would find it both fascinating and full of interesting facts, stories, illustrations and graphs that bring the story to life.February 18, 2009 * Walterboro, SC * Fields-Black manages to make her research and its implications accessible to a wider audience. . . . Readers will appreciate the book's clarity of expression and revealing discussions of historical analysis and argumentation. . . . Recommended.December 2009 * Choice * [This] book makes a significant contribution to our understanding of rice cultivation in West Africa . . . .Vol. 50 2009 -- Erik Gilbert * Arkansas State University * In fine, Deep Roots represents an important contribution to the literature on risiculture in West Africa.XL.4 Spring 2010 -- Peter A. Coclanis * University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill * Deep Roots is a valuable addition to research on African rice systems and their origins. ...it contributes to the understanding of the rich cultural diversity of the coastal region extending from Gambia south and east to Liberia. Vol. 53.1 April 2010 -- Laurence C. Becker * Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon * The scope of the work makes it an important addition for African and Diaspora studies, as well as those more generally interested in the transference of ideas and ecology. * Journal of West African History * Read more...


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