Deep roots rice farmers in West Africa and the African diaspora / [electronic resource] :
Edda L. Fields-Black.
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2008.
- xvi, 277 p. : ill., maps.
- Blacks in the diaspora .
- Blacks in the diaspora. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-256) and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.