Research Catalog

Title

The sweet potato and Oceania : an essay in ethnobotany / D.E. Yen.

Author

Yen, D. E.

Publication

Honolulu : Bishop Museum Press, 1974.

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Details

Description

xvi, 389 pages : illustrations; 26 cm.

Series Statement

Bernice P. Bishop Museum. Bulletin ; 236

Uniform Title

Bernice P. Bishop Museum bulletin ; 236.

Subject

• Sweet potatoes > Oceania
• Ethnobotany > Oceania
• Traditional farming > Oceania
• Ethnobotany
• Sweet potatoes
• Traditional farming
• Patates douces > Histoire > Océanie
• Oceania
• Océanie > Patates douces > Histoire

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. [353]-383.

Contents

Ch. One. THE SWEET POTATO IN THE PACIFIC : THE HYPOTHESES -- The prehistoric hypotheses -- The historic hypotheses -- The combination hypotheses -- The historical record -- The linguistic aspect -- Summary statement -- The archaeological evidence -- Some cultural associations -- Ch. Two. THE AGRONOMY OF THE PACIFIC SWEET POTATO -- The sweet potato as a food plant -- Agronomic characteristics ; Site selection ; Planting material ; Soil preparation ; Plant growth ; Root harvesting -- Ch. Three. THE PLACE OF SWEET POTATO IN AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS -- Asia ; Thailand ; Ryukyu Islands ; Philippine Islands ; Timor -- Melanesia ; The New Guinea highlands ; The Solomon Islands ; New Caledonia -- Polynesia ; Futuna ; Uvea ; The Marquesas Islands ; Easter Island -- America ; Andean agriculture ; Sub-Andean agriculture ; Tropical forest agriculture ; Circum-Caribbean region -- Ch. Four. THE PLANT : IDENTITY AND BOTANICAL RELATIONSHIPS -- Taxonomy -- Ancestry ; Genetics -- Ch. Five. PLANT VARIATION IN THE SWEET POTATO -- Flowering ; Flowering incidence in New Zealand ; The morphological features of the sweet potato flower -- Plant growth ; Growth habit ; Stem measurements ; Leaf margin type ; Leaf dimensions ; Plant hairiness and purpling -- Root growth ; The development of edible roots ; The shape of edible roots ; Root colors -- Plant responses ; Reaction to cold ; Reaction to diseases -- The relationships of CN675 -- Ch. Six. VARIETIES, VARIATION, AND PROPAGATION -- Ch. Seven. THE INDICATIONS OF PLANT TRANSFER DIRECTIONS -- Center of origin -- Transfer into the Pacific -- A reconstruction -- Some alternative hypotheses -- The transferrers of the Polynesian sweet potato -- Ch. Eight. PACIFIC AGRICULTURAL HISTORY AND THE SWEET POTATO OCEANIC AGRICULTURES -- An agricultural transfer sequence -- 1. Asia -- 2. New Guinea -- 3. The Melanesian-Polynesian area -- 4. Eastern Polynesia -- The sweet potato intrusion -- Ch. Nine. THE IMPACT OF SWEET POTATO INTRODUCTION -- New Zealand -- Stage 1. Introductory : the introduction of the tropical food plants -- Stage 2. Experimental : the development of agricultural methods -- Stage 3. Systematic : stable agricultural system -- Easter Island -- Hawaii -- New Guinea -- Asia -- POSTSCRIPT. A CRITICAL SUMMARY -- Plant introduction : the tripartite hypothesis -- Adaptation : sweet potato dominance in the marginal tropics.

ISBN

• 0910240175
• 9780910240178

LCCN

74075842

OCLC

• ocm01104393
• 1104393
• SCSB-476606

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library