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Black rice : the African origins of rice cultivation in the Americas /

"Through agricultural and historical evidence, [the author establishes] the independent domestication of rice in West Africa and its vital significance there for a millennium before Europeans arrived and the slave trade began."--Jacket.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Carney, Judith Ann (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, [2001]
Colección:ACLS Fellows' publications.
ACLS Humanities E-Book.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • 1. Encounters
  • 2. Rice Origins and Indigenous Knowledge
  • 3. Out of Africa: Rice Culture and African Continuities
  • 4 . This Was "Woman's Wuck"
  • 5. African Rice and the Atlantic World
  • 6. Legacies