Description: Sacred 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.
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Book Title: Sacred Rice: An Ethnography of Identity, Environment, and Develop
Item Length: 5.4in
Item Height: 0.6in
Item Width: 8.1in
Author: Joanna Davidson
Publication Name: Sacred Rice : an Ethnography of Identity, Environment, and Development in Rural West Africa
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication Year: 2015
Series: Issues of Globalization:Case Studies in Contemporary Anthropology Ser.
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 10.4 Oz
Number of Pages: 264 Pages
