Manioc: An Example of Innovation in African Economies

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Title:	Manioc: An Example of Innovation in African Economies
Author:	Jones, William O.
Year:	1957
Periodical:	Economic Development and Cultural Change
Volume:	5
Issue:	2
Pages:	97-117
Language:	English
Geographic terms:	Subsaharan Africa Africa
Subjects:	cassava Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment Development and Technology Economics and Trade
External link:	https://www.jstor.org/stable/1151667
Abstract:	There are different opinions about effective cultural contact between european and African cultures. There is a tendency to identify culture contact with European occupation without regard of earlier contacts which brought innovations. Some people believe in the native's total resistance to change. This idea has been contradicted by antheopologists, who probably best understand the workings of the African mind. Herskovits says: 'It is as unrealistic to attribute excessive stability to African cultures during the centuries before European occupation as it is to overemphasize change in present-day African life'. Probably the most impressive evidence of culture contact, and of innovation in Africa, is the very important place that certain American crops occupy in native agriculture and native diets. Maps, References.