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Fusion foodways of Africa's Gold Coast in the Atlantic era /

Fusion Foodways describes the agricultural and cultural history of the Gold Coast (now, Ghana) in the Atlantic era, exploring the historical significance of new food crops and culinary techniques from the Americas, Asia and elsewhere in Africa to the farmers who produced them and to everybody who at...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: La Fleur, J. D. (James Daniel), 1969-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.
Colección:Atlantic world (Leiden, Netherlands) ; v. 26.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Finding history in early Afro-Atlantic foodways
  • Grist for the mill : Africanist historiography of pre-colonial agriculture
  • Introducing the land to culture : an interpretation
  • Seeds of change : early African experimentation with foreign starches
  • You reap what you sow : the profits and perils of the new starchy staples
  • The porcupine's shame : bearing the burden of cassava culture
  • Finding food in Afro-Atlantic history.