Black Rice

The African Origins of Rice Cultivation in the Americas

Judith A. Carney

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$31.50 • £25.95 • €28.50

ISBN 9780674008342

Publication Date: 03/01/2002

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256 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

18 halftones, 10 line illustrations, 1 map

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Preface
Introduction
1. Encounters
2. Rice Origins and Indigenous Knowledge
3. Out of Africa: Rice Culture and African Continuities
4. This Was “Woman’s Work”
5. African Rice and the Atlantic World
6. Legacies
Notes
References
Index

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Awards & Accolades

2003 James M. Blaut Innovative Publication Award, Cultural and Political Ecology Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers

Co-Winner, 2002 Melville J. Herskovits Award, African Studies Association

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