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 wherein Jola farmers in West Africa are responding to their environmental and financial stipulations given the centrality of a crop--rice--that is the lynchpin for his or her financial, social, non secular, and political worlds. in accordance with greater than ten years of writer Joanna Davidson's ethnographic and historic examine on rural Guinea-Bissau, this e-book seems on the courting between humans, crops, and id because it explores how a society involves outline itself during 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 a number 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 more often than not 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 suggest that African American ladies have few mental difficulties, the clinical literature and demographic facts current a distinct photograph.

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

Within the arms of Strangers is a set of files by means of writers and witnesses from the prior, either black and white, that supply views at the exchange and move of slaves. Many records elucidate the long-standing discord among North and South over the problem of slavery. within the fingers of Strangers is split into 3 components.