Overview
- There is no other book available on this subject matter
- Provides a real example of domesticating a crop from the wild to cultivation and an ancient art form that is dependent on positive results
- Provides knowledge of the horticulture of an extremely important wild plant and an example of the perils of plant- and people-based research and experimentation.
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Plant Science (BRIEFSPLANT)
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Stalking the Wild Sweetgrass: Domestication and Horticulture of the Grass Used in African-American Coiled Basketry is concerned with the historical domestication of sweetgrass, the main construction/structural grass used in the three century old African-American tradition of coiled basketry in South Carolina. During the plantation era in southern agriculture, sweetgrass baskets were made for post-harvest processing and storage of rice by enslaved Africans from Lower Cape Fear, North Carolina to northern Florida. Enslaved Africans from the Rice Kingdom in Africa were prized for the basketry and rice agronomic skills and were specially sought by slavery traders. Today, this ancient craft still thrives in the community of Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina.
Authored by one of the most renowned experts in the field and filled with illuminating color photographs, this volume provides knowledge of the horticulture of an extremely important wild plant and an example of the perils of plant- and people-based research and experimentation. As one of the few authoritative texts on the subject, Stalking the Wild Sweetgrass: Domestication and Horticulture of the Grass Used in African-American Coiled Basketry is a resourceful volume on wild sweetgrass, suitable for researchers and students alike.
Authors and Affiliations
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Clemson University, Department of Horticulture, Charleston, SC, USA
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Stalking the Wild Sweetgrass
Book Subtitle: Domestication and Horticulture of the Grass Used in African-American Coiled Basketry
Authors: Robert J. Dufault
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Plant Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5903-3
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Robert J. Dufault 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-5902-6Published: 06 December 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4614-5903-3Published: 09 December 2012
Series ISSN: 2192-1229
Series E-ISSN: 2192-1210
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 119
Number of Illustrations: 41 b/w illustrations, 24 illustrations in colour
Topics: Plant Sciences, Plant Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography, Plant Ecology, Plant Breeding/Biotechnology, Plant Physiology, Plant Anatomy/Development