Sacred Rice: An Ethnography of Identity, Environment, and Development in Rural West Africa

by Joanna Davidson

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199358680
• ISBN13: 9780199358687
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.1"