Grass roots : African origins of an American art / Dale Rosengarten, Theodore Rosengarten, Enid Schildkrout ; with contributions by Judith A. Carney ... [et al.].

• Foreword / Elsie McCabe -- Acknowledgments / Dale Rosengarten and Enid Schildkrout -- Contributors -- Introduction / Theodore Rosengarten -- African origins: ancestors and analogues / Enid Schildkrout and Dale Rosengarten -- They understand their business well: West Africans in early South Carolina / Peter H. Wood -- Rice in the New World / Judith A. Carney -- By the rivers of Babylon: the Lowcountry basket in slavery and freedom / Dale Rosengarten -- Carolina's gold: three hundred years of rice and recipes in lowcountry kitchens / Jessica B. Harris -- Missions and markets: Sea Island basketry and the sweetgrass revolution / Dale Rosengarten -- Necessity and invention: the art of coiled basketry in Southern Africa / Sandra Klopper -- Documentary images and devotional acts: plantation painting as propaganda / John Michael Vlach -- The paradox of preservation: Gullah language, culture and imagery / Fath Davis Ruffins -- Islands are not isolated: reconsidering the roots of Gullah distinctiveness / J. Lorand Matory.

Ämnesord

Basket making  -- United States -- Exhibitions. (LCSH)

Basketwork  -- United States -- Exhibitions. (LCSH)

Grasswork  -- United States -- Exhibitions. (LCSH)

African American art  -- Exhibitions. (LCSH)

Art, African  -- Influence -- Exhibitions. (LCSH)

Klassifikation

NK3649.55.U55 (LCC)