{"product_id":"deep-roots-rice-farmers-in-west-africa-and-the-african-diaspora-blacks-in-the-diaspora-025301610x","title":"Deep Roots: Rice Farmers in West Africa and the African Diaspora (Blacks in the Diaspora)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 025301610X\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Fields-Black, Edda L.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMangrove 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51696822583584,"sku":"NEW025301610X","price":34.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/81AhT-kHFHL.jpg?v=1779382632","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/deep-roots-rice-farmers-in-west-africa-and-the-african-diaspora-blacks-in-the-diaspora-025301610x","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}