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Title

Palm sago : a tropical starch from marginal lands / Kenneth Ruddle [and others].

Publication

• Honolulu : Published for the East-West Center by the University Press of Hawaii, [1978]
• ©1978.

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Additional Authors

• Ruddle, Kenneth.
• East-West Technology and Development Institute.

Description

xvi, 207 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

"This book takes a multidisciplinary and multicultural approach to studying the relationship between human societies and food-yielding tropical palms. A joint effort of four people whose specialties complement each other, it provides a broad and thorough examination of palm sago, a starch that has potential for small-scale, low-cost development in marginal areas of the tropics. Information on the extraction and production of palm sago in insular and mainland Southeast Asia, the tropical Americas, Melanesia, South China, and South Asia is presented here. More than an ethnobotanical monograph, this study places palm sago and its use within the relevant historical, technological, nutritional, commercial, and ritual context. Well-illustrated and drawing together a broad spectrum of information, this study provides the depth of knowledge of man/plant relationship needed to plan the rational development of tropical swamp environments. Academics and professionals in many fields will find this book of interest" -- Back cover.

Series Statement

An East-West Center book

Subject

Sago

Note

• "An East-West Center book from the East-West Technology and Development Institute."
• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. [191]-202.

Contents

Figures -- Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Traditional extraction and preparation of Sago -- Sago as substance, complementary, and emergency food -- Sago in myth and ritual -- Modern commercial sago production in Sabah, Brunei, and Sarawak -- International trade -- The future outlook for sago production -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

ISBN

• 0824805771
• 9780824805777

LCCN

77028981

OCLC

• ocm03608702
• 3608702
• SCSB-141148

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library