" A rewarding read for those who enjoy a cogent and disciplined presentation of grounded systems which can only be acquired through painstaking mastery of anthropological detail in the field."
Chapter 1 Introduction—The Ecology of Practice, A. Endre Nyerges; Chapter 2 Diminished Rains and Divided Tasks: Rice Growing in Three Jola Communities of Casamance, Senegal, Olga F. Linares; Chapter 3 Indirass and the Political Ecology of Flood Recession Agriculture, Thomas K. Park; Chapter 4 The Ecology of Food Security in the Northern Senegal Wetlands, John Magistro; Chapter 5 Shifting Social and Ecological Mosaics in Mende Forest Farming, Melissa Leach; Chapter 6 The Social Life of Swiddens: Juniors, Elders and the Ecology of Susu Upland Rice Farms, A. Endre Nyerges; Chapter 7 Toward an African Green Revolution? An Anthropology of Rice Research in Sierra Leone, Paul Richards;
A. Endre Nyerges, Centre College, Danville, Kentucky