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 monetary stipulations given the centrality of a crop--rice--that is the lynchpin for his or her financial, social, non secular, and political worlds. in keeping with greater than ten years of writer Joanna Davidson's ethnographic and old learn on rural Guinea-Bissau, this booklet seems to be on the courting between humans, crops, and id because it explores how a society involves outline itself in the course of the construction, 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 a variety of elements of the realm 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 normally been portrayed as "pillars" in their communities―resilient moms, sisters, other 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 info current a distinct photograph.

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

Within the fingers of Strangers is a suite of files through writers and witnesses from the previous, either black and white, that provide views at the alternate and stream of slaves. Many files elucidate the long-standing discord among North and South over the difficulty of slavery. within the palms of Strangers is split into 3 elements.