Sacred rice : an ethnography of identity, environment, and development in rural West Africa
Bibliographie
- Auteurs : Davidson Joanna ;
- Editeurs : New York, NY Oxford Oxford University Press ;
- Date d'édition : Copyright 2016
- ISBN : 978-0-19-935868-7, 0-19-935868-0
- Sujets : Riz -- Anthropologie -- Guinée-Bissau, Riz, Riziculteurs, Diola (peuple d'Afrique), Climat
- Langue(s) : Anglais
- Description matérielle : 1 vol. (xiii-249 p.), : Ill., cartes, couv. ill. en coul., 21 cm
- Pays de publication : États-Unis, Royaume-Uni
- Collection (notice d'ensemble) : Issues of globalization, : Case studies in contemporary anthropology.
Notes
Notes bibliogr.. Glossaire. Bibliogr. p. 217-235. Index
Résumé
'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.'