Feeding & Healing the Body | Africa

Outline

  • Origins of Agriculture
    Africa:
  • Methods of argiculture
  • Food preservation
  • Food preparation
  • Cassava
  • Healing: Herbalists | Divination
  • Web Excursions

    VISUALS
    1. energy efficiencies of farming and gathering [Paul Gepts, UC Davis]
    2. multiple centers of agricultural origins [after Vavilov, AAAS]
    3. map of expanding geographical distribution of wheat [J. Diamond, Science]
    4. use of dams to increase marshland for nutgrass []
    5. increase in seed size from wild to domseticated millet [Univ. of Wisconsin]
    6. records of early Egytian farming [Brian Brake, Photo Researchers, Inc.]
    7. early culture -- Harappa site
    8. kente cloth, Ghana, Africa
    9. Western monoculture farming
    10. granary, Niger [Patrica Stoll]
    11. intercropping of Leucana and cowpea [Erick Fernandes, Cornell Univ. and Univ. of Georgia Ethnoecology BioDiversity Lab]
    12. Acacia agroforestry [CW Fagg]
    13. African biomes [USDA]
    14. drying cassava at a Ghana market [Evelyn Nijveldt]
    15. some chemical defenses [Scientific American]
    16. Nigerian nono (fermented milk) [Gloria Emeagwali]
    17. cassava [Univ. of Witwatersrand and IITA]
    18. map of cassava migration [IITA]
    19. cassava harvest [ISCAR]
    20. peeling cassava [ISCAR]
    21. cassava root
    22. the Iceman and his fungus
    23. medicinal herb seller, Abidjan, Cote d"Ivoire [People and Plants Online]
    24. "active ingredients" in traditional herbal medicines [People and Plants Online] and apprentice healer from Twasa collecting bulbs
    25. ingredients for the traditional healer in Ghana [Joao Silva, AP Photo]
    26. Ifa divination pieces [tray, tapper from Metropolitan Museum of Art; opele -- Chuck Berman, Chicago Tribune]

    Web Excursions
  • Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Database [Duke University]

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