Research Catalog

Title

The sweet potato in Oceania : a reappraisal / edited by Chris Ballard ... [et al.].

Publication

Pittsburgh, PA : Dept. of Anthropology, Univ. of Pittsburgh ; [Sydney] NSW, Australia : University of Sydney, 2005.

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Additional Authors

• Ballard, Chris, 1963-
• Brown, Paula, 1925-2009.
• Bourke, R. Michael.
• Harwood, Tracy.
• Bourke, R. M.
• Harwood, Tracy Ann, 1967-
• Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania. Meetings (2002 : Auckland, N.Z.)

Description

viii, 227 p. : ill., maps (some col.); 30 cm.

Summary

"The goals, stated or implicit, included: a review of the status of knowledge about sweet potato in Oceania, covering advances in agronomic, botanical, archaelogical and ethnographic understanding; a regional overview, integrating advances in both Polynesia and Melanesia; an assessment of the significance of sweet potato in the region, relative to other crops, other introductions or innovations; and the identification of areas for future research. This volume is not intended as a comprehensive statement on the topic - one obvious deficiency in our coverage is the limited discussion of recent genetic work - but it should provide a useful statement of developments since 1974 in our understanding of sweet potato's history in Oceania and serve as a spur to further, more focused research."--P. v.

Series Statement

• Oceania monograph ; 56
• Ethnology monographs ; [no.] 19

Uniform Title

• Ethnology monographs ; [no.] 19.
• Oceania monographs no. 56.

Subject

• Sweet potatoes > Oceania > Congresses
• Ethnobotany > Oceania > Congresses
• Plant remains (Archaeology) > Oceania > Congresses
• Sweet potatoes > Oceania
• Ethnobotany > Oceania
• Plant remains (Archaeology) > Oceania

Note

• Some papers originally presented at a session of the ASAO annual meeting at Auckland in Feb. 2002.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references ( p.191-217) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

"Sweet potato occupies a cental role in the cultures and subsistence systems of many indigenous societies in Oceania, especially in those of Aotearoa/New Zealand, Hawaii, the Solomon Islands and New Guinea. " "The eighteen papers in this volume represent the cutting edge of current cross-disciplinary thought on these questions, which are tackled here by archaeologists, historians, anthropologists, palynologists and agricultural scientists." -- [P. 1].

ISBN

0945428138

LCCN

^^2005926225

OCLC

• 62213352
• SCSB-10346676

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library