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Sacred rice : an ethnography of identity, environment, and development in rural West Africa /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Davidson, Joanna, 1969- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, [2016]
Series:Issues of globalization.
Subjects:
Diola (African people) > Guinea-Bissau > Social life and customs.
Diola (African people) > Agriculture > Guinea-Bissau.
Rice farmers > Guinea-Bissau.
Rice > Social aspects > Guinea-Bissau.
Climatic changes > Economic aspects > Guinea-Bissau.
Climatic changes > Economic aspects.
Diola (African people) > Agriculture.
Diola (African people) > Social life and customs.
Rice farmers.
Rice > Social aspects.
Guinea-Bissau.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: sacred rice
  • A rice complex
  • Ampa Badji & Nho Keboral
  • "We work hard"
  • Cultivating knowledge
  • Of rice and men
  • Transgressive segregation revisited
  • Jopai, and the limits of legibility
  • Conclusions: structural uncertainty.