Black rice : the African origins of rice cultivation in the Americas / Judith A. Carney.

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Carney, Judith Ann [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: ACLS Fellows' publications | ACLS Humanities E-BookPublisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, [2001]Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 240 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780674029217
0674029216
0674262530
9780674262539

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Black rice.DDC classification:

633.1/8/0975 21

LOC classification:

SB191.R5 C35 2001

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15.80
15.85

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Contents:

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Preface -- 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 AtlanticWorld -- 6. Legacies -- Notes -- References -- Index

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Summary: "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.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-232) and index.

"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.

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