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Article: The Sweet Potato in Oceania: a reappraisal.(Book review)
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- Archaeology in Oceania
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- April 1, 2006
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The Sweet Potato in Oceania: a reappraisal Edited by C. Ballard, P. Brown, R.M. Bourke and T. Harwood Ethnology Monographs 19, Oceania Monographs 56, 2005. University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh and University of Sydney, Sydney. ISBN 0-945428-13-8. Pp. viii + 227. SA62.70/$US56.
The volume consists of 18 chapters including an opening overview chapter by Chris Ballard and a concluding chapter by Doug Yen in which he provides some historical context for his own seminal work (1974), upon which this volume builds, as well as an attempt to integrate the key points of the proceeding chapters. As Ballard notes, a number of themes tend to dominate. These are, in East ...