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03272aam a2200457 i 4500 001 036BC0BEECCF11E5A64DF5B3DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20160318010059 008 150204t20162016nyuab b 001 0 eng c 020 $a 0199358680 (pbk. : alk. paper) 020 $a 9780199358687 (pbk. : alk. paper) 035 $a (OCoLC)928390543 040 $a IEN/DLC $b eng $e rda $c STF $d MNG $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d YDXCP $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a f-pg--- 050 00 $a DT613.45.D56 $b D38 2016 082 00 $a 305.896/32 $2 23 100 1 $a Davidson, Joanna, $d 1969- $e author. 245 10 $a Sacred rice : $b an ethnography of identity, environment, and development in rural West Africa / $c Joanna Davidson (Boston University). 264 1 $a New York : $b Oxford University Press, $c [2016] 300 $a xiii, 249 pages : $b illustrations, maps ; $c 21 cm. 490 1 $a Issues of globalization 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-235) and index. 505 00 $t Conclusions: structural uncertainty. $t A rice complex -- $t Ampa Badji & Nho Keboral -- $t "We work hard" -- $t Cultivating knowledge -- $t Of rice and men -- $t Transgressive segregation revisited -- $t Jopai, and the limits of legibility -- $t Conclusions: structural uncertainty. 520 $a 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. -- $c Provided by the Publisher. 650 0 $a Diola (African people) $z Guinea-Bissau $x Social life and customs. 650 0 $a Diola (African people) $x Agriculture $z Guinea-Bissau. 650 0 $a Rice farmers $z Guinea-Bissau. 650 0 $a Rice $x Social aspects $z Guinea-Bissau. 650 0 $a Climatic changes $x Economic aspects $z Guinea-Bissau. 650 7 $a Climatic changes $x Economic aspects. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00864236 650 7 $a Diola (African people) $x Agriculture. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00894062 650 7 $a Diola (African people) $x Social life and customs. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00894067 650 7 $a Rice farmers. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01097469 650 7 $a Rice $x Social aspects. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01097438 651 7 $a Guinea-Bissau. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01208732 830 0 $a Issues of globalization. 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231021012254.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20190502023654.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=036BC0BEECCF11E5A64DF5B3DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search