TY - BOOK ID - 13254022 TI - Deep roots : rice farmers in West Africa and the African diaspora PY - 2008 SN - 9780253352194 0253352193 9786612238291 1282238299 0253002966 9780253002969 9781282238299 6612238291 PB - Bloomington : Indiana University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Baga (African people) KW - Nalu (African people) KW - Rice farmers KW - Rice trade KW - Rice KW - Slave trade KW - Slavery KW - Agriculture KW - History KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE KW - Anthropology / Cultural KW - History & Archaeology KW - Regions & Countries - Africa KW - Abolition of slavery KW - Antislavery KW - Enslavement KW - Mui tsai KW - Ownership of slaves KW - Servitude KW - Slave keeping KW - Slave system KW - Slaveholding KW - Thralldom KW - Lowland paddy KW - Lowland rice KW - Oryza sativa KW - Paddy (Plant) KW - Padi KW - Palay KW - Rice industry KW - Crimes against humanity KW - Serfdom KW - Slaveholders KW - Slaves KW - Oryza KW - Grain trade KW - Farmers KW - Rice workers KW - Enslaved persons UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:13254022 AB - Mangrove rice farming on West Africa's Rice Coast was the mirror image of tidewater rice plantations worked by enslaved Africans in 18th-century South Carolina and Georgia. This book reconstructs the development of rice-growing technology among the Baga and Nalu of coastal Guinea, beginning more than a millennium before the transatlantic slave trade. It reveals a picture of dynamic pre-colonial coastal societies, quite unlike the static, homogenous pre-modern Africa of previous scholarship. From its examination of inheritance, innovation, and borrowing, Deep Roots fashions a theory of cultural change that encompasses the diversity of communities, cultures, and forms of expression in Africa and the African diaspora. ER -