Title Information
Pac.GN670.P59 1992
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Book
TITLE:
These roots remain : food habits in islands of the central and eastern Pacific since western contact / Nancy Pollock.
ADDED TITLE:
Food habits in the Pacific since western contact
AUTHOR:
Pollock, Nancy J.
PUBLISHED:
Laie, Hawaii : Institute for Polynesian Studies, 1992.
DESCRIPTION:
xv, 298 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
NOTES:
"...a broad survey of eleven main starch foods of Polynesia and Micronesia"
NOTES:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
NOTES:
Includes origins/history/descriptions of taro, breadfruit, sweet potato, yam, cassava, pandanus, banana, and arrowroot, along with their latin and local names, planting requirements/conditions, etc.
SUBJECT:
Nutritional anthroplogy--Polynesia.
SUBJECT:
Nutritional anthropology--Micronesia.
SUBJECT:
Food habits--Polynesia.
SUBJECT:
Food habits--Micronesia.
SUBJECT:
Food--Symbolic aspects.
SUBJECT:
Polynesia--Social life and customs.
SUBJECT:
Micronesia--Social life and customs.
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