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| 020 | _a9780199358687 | ||
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_aDT613.45.D56 _bD38 2016 |
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_aDavidson, Joanna, _d1969- _eauthor |
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_aSacred Rice : _ban Ethnography of Identity, Environment, and Development in Rural West Africa / _cJoanna Davidson, Boston University |
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_aNew York : _bOxford University Press, _c[2016] |
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_axiii, 249 pages : _billustrations, maps ; picture _c21 cm |
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_atext _btxt _2rdacontent |
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| 500 | _aincludes bibliographic reference and index | ||
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_aSacred Rice explores the cultural intricacies through which Jola farmers in West Africa are responding to their environmental and economic conditions given the centrality of a crop - rice - that is the lynchpin for their economic, social, religious, and political worlds. Based on more than ten years of author Joanna Davidson's ethnographic and historical research on rural Guinea-Bissau, this book looks at the relationship among people, plants, and identity as it explores how a society comes to define itself through the production, consumption, and reverence of rice. It is a narrative profoundly tied to a particular place, but it is also a story of encounters with outsiders who often mediate or meddle in the rice enterprise. Although the focal point is a remote area of West Africa, the book illuminates the more universal nexus of identity, environment, and development, especially in an era when many people--rural and urban - are confronting environmental changes that challenge their livelihoods and lifestyles. -- _cProvided by the Publisher |
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_aDiola (African people) _zGuinea-Bissau _xSocial life and customs |
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_aDiola (African people) _xAgriculture _zGuinea-Bissau |
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_aRice farmers _zGuinea-Bissau |
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_aRice _xSocial aspects _zGuinea-Bissau |
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_aClimatic changes _xEconomic aspects _zGuinea-Bissau |
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