Format:
Online-Ressource (xvi, 214 p.)
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ill., maps.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
9789004234093
Series Statement:
Atlantic world v. 26
Content:
Fusion Foodways describes the agricultural and cultural history of the Gold Coast (now, Ghana) in the Atlantic era, exploring the historical significance of new food crops and culinary techniques from the Americas, Asia and elsewhere in Africa to the farmers who produced them and to everybody who ate.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Maps, Illustrations, and Word Lists -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Notes on Linguistic Evidence and African Languages -- Chapter One Finding History in Early Afro-Atlantic Foodways -- Grist for the Mill: Africanist Historiography of Pre-Colonial Agriculture -- Directions -- Investigative Themes -- Chapter Two Introducing the Land to Culture: An Interpretation -- Early Foraging to 25,000 BCE -- Specialized Foraging, 25,000 BCE to 10,000 BCE -- Intensified Foraging from 10,000 BCE -- From Foraging to Farming -- Initial Farming from 500 BCE -- Mature Farming, Circa 1400 CE -- Conclusion -- Chapter Three Seeds of Change: Early African Experimentation with Foreign Starches -- The Agro-Historical Milieu -- Plantains -- Maize -- Asian Rice -- Conclusion -- Chapter Four You Reap What You Sow: The Profits and Perils of the New Starchy Staples -- Going for Gold with Plantains -- In Retrospect -- Allada Communities аnd Culinary Cross-Currents -- Baked Bread аnd Biscuits -- Kenkey -- Opportunities Brewing -- Sowing and Savoring Wealth -- Insecurity and Impoverishment Amid Scarcity and Violence -- Impoverishment in Times of Plenty -- Conclusion -- Chapter Five The Porcupine's Shame: Bearing the Burden of Cassava Culture -- Problems in the Earliest Records of Introduction -- Introducing Cassava -- Africanizing Cassava Culture -- Outsiders and Renewed Innovation with Cassava -- Colonial Postscript -- Conclusion -- Chapter Six Finding Food in Afro-Atlantic History -- Reflections & Prospects -- Fusion Foodways -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Index.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif; ebrary; 2011; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004224124
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 978-90-04-22412-4
Language:
English
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