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Title:

Ethnobotany of Pohnpei : plants, people, and island culture / compiled and edited by Michael J. Balick.

Publisher:

University of Hawaii Press;

Copyright Date:

2009

Description:

xi, 585 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 24 cm

Subject:

Ethnobotany--Pohnpei.--Pohnpei.
Traditional medicine--Pohnpei.--Pohnpei.
Plants, Useful--Pohnpei.--Pohnpei.

Other Authors:

Balick, Michael J., 1952- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85150272

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Plants and people of Pohnpei: an overview / Michael J. Balick ... [et al.] -- Yams and their traditional cultivation on Pohnpei / Bill Raynor, Adelino Lorens, and Jackson Phillip -- Breadfruit and its traditional cultivation and use on Pohnpei / Diane Ragone and Bill Raynor -- Banana: an essential traditional crop on Pohnpei / Lois Englberger ... [et al.] -- Taro: an important Pohnpei staple food / Lois Englberger ... [et al.] -- The sacred root: sakau en Pohnpei / Michael J. Balick and Roberta A. Lee -- Traditional medicine, Pohnpei, and its integration / Roberta A. Lee -- Local uses of plants and fungi on Pohnpei: an ethnobotanical compendium / Elipiana Albert ... [et al.] -- Checklist of the vascular plants of Pohnpei / David H. Lorence and Timothy Flynn.

ISBN:

0824832930
9780824832933

OCLC:

(OCoLC)236082421

LCCN:

2008031255

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)