Sacred Rice: An Ethnography of Identity, Environment, and Development in Rural West Africa (Issues of Globalization:Case Studies in Contemporary Anthropology)

Sacred Rice explores the cultural intricacies by which Jola farmers in West Africa are responding to their environmental and fiscal stipulations given the centrality of a crop--rice--that is the lynchpin for his or her financial, social, spiritual, and political worlds. according to greater than ten years of writer Joanna Davidson's ethnographic and ancient examine on rural Guinea-Bissau, this e-book seems to be on the courting between humans, vegetation, and identification because it explores how a society involves outline itself throughout the creation, intake, and reverence of rice.

Black Religion and Aesthetics: Religious Thought and Life in Africa and the African Diaspora

An exam of the aesthetics of black faith as present in numerous elements of the area together with the Americas, the Carribean, Africa and Europe.

In and Out of Our Right Minds: The Mental Health of African American Women

African American ladies have often been portrayed as "pillars" in their communities―resilient moms, sisters, better halves, and grandmothers who stay steadfast within the face of all adversities. whereas those portrayals indicate that African American girls have few mental difficulties, the medical literature and demographic facts current a special photo.

In the Hands of Strangers: Readings on Foreign and Domestic Slave Trading and the Crisis of the Union

Within the palms of Strangers is a suite of records by way of writers and witnesses from the earlier, either black and white, that provide views at the exchange and stream of slaves. Many files elucidate the long-standing discord among North and South over the problem of slavery. within the arms of Strangers is split into 3 components.