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Article: The Sweet Potato in Oceania: A Reappraisal.(Book review)
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The Sweet Potato in Oceania: a reappraisal
Edited by Chris Ballard, Paula Brown, R. Michael Bourke and Tracy Harwood. Oceania Monograph 56, Ethnology Monographs 19. Sydney: Oceania Publications 2005. Pp: ii + 227. Price: US $56, AU$62.70
Now accepted as having an ultimate origin in South America, sweet potato holds an important place within Oceania as a trans-Pacific introduction. As this new edited volume aptly outlines, sweet potato was introduced during the prehistoric era into Polynesia through the dispersal of human agents. As Yen notes in the concluding chapter, the consideration of the plant's role within Oceania also relates to major ...