Arboriculture in the subsistence of Santa Cruz, Solomon Islands

Yen, D. E.

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“…The paste thus remains edible in the pits for many years. Regional variations in the methods of preparation have been extensively described for other Pacific countries (Atchley and Cox 1985;Cox 1980;Pollock 1992;Ragone 1991Ragone , 2002Yen 1974). In Vanuatu, breadfruit fermentation seems to have once been widespread in the central and southern islands, the Polynesian outliers Futuna and Aniwa, as well as on Malo.…”

Section: Conservation Techniquesmentioning

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Ethnobotany of Breadfruit in Vanuatu: Review and Prospects

Labouisse

2016

EBL

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Breadfruit is a traditional staple crop and an important component of Pacific Island agrosystems. This article reviews documentation related to breadfruit in Vanuatu with a focus on ethnobotanical data recorded from the first contacts with European voyagers and missionaries to the most recent survey conducted on several islands in 2009. Tree management practices, food and non-food uses, conservation techniques, as well as ritual magic intended to increase yields and protect the crop, are described. A database of 539 cultivar names has been compiled. Some lines for future research within the social and biological sciences are proposed.

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Section: Conservation Techniquesmentioning

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“…Breadfruit (Artocarpus altilis) is a traditional staple crop and an important component of Pacific Island agrosystems (Barrau 1958;Ragone 1997;Yen 1974). In the past it was a key element for islanders' food security thanks to the potential of the tree to produce high yields under low-input conditions.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Ethnobotany of Breadfruit in Vanuatu: Review and Prospects

Labouisse

2016

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“…Prebble (2008) found that Aleurites moluccana, Broussonetia papyrifera, Cocos nucifera, and Cordyline fruticosa were introduced as cultivated trees or shrubs on many subtropical islands in the South Pacific. This transportation and cultivation of woody species into remote Oceania stands in contrast to the extensive utilization of rain forest species, including many species of Pandanus, palms, and tropical hardwoods, in the Indo-Malayan peninsula and in Melanesia (Barrau 1963, Yen 1974, Denham et al 2003. Similarly, most of the herbaceous Polynesian cultigens found in Tonga are derived from Melanesia or Southeast Asia.…”

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Plant Dispersal, Introduced Species, and Vegetation Change in the South Pacific Kingdom of Tonga

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Drezner

2011

Pacific Science

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“…Botanical, linguistic, and archaeological data indicate that A. altilis breadfruit was introduced into eastern Micronesia from the south. The Santa Cruz Islands, which seem a likely source for much of early Nuclear Micronesia's origins, are characterized by dense agroforest that is in many ways similar to that of Pohnpei and Kosrae, although arboriculture there relies on a wider range of tree crops (Yen 1974;Athens et al 1996); "The greatest diversity of seeded and few-seeded cultivars is found in the eastern Solomon Islands and Vanuatu, and it was probably in the Santa Cruz and possibly the Banks Islands that breadfruit was first extensively cultivated and selected" (Ragone 1997: 19). These first trees were of course limited to the A. camansi-86 derived altilis vaneties.…”

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Micronesia's Breadfruit Revolution and the evolution of a Culture Area

Petersen

2006

Archaeology in Oceania

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Micronesia was initially settled from at least three quite separate points of origin and comprises multiple cultural and linguistic stocks. It nevertheless manifests a striking uniformity in its sociopolitical organization. I argue that these shared aspects of Micronesian societies diffused out of the Eastern Caroline Islands as a consequence of a prehistoric sociocultural efflorescence driven at least in part by the hybridization of two entirelydifferent breadfruit species. The characteristic form of Micronesia's dispersed conical clans was spread throughout the entire region, carriedalongwiththe economic successes conferred by productive new breadfruit varieties. Botanical, linguistic, archaeological and ethnological data are marshaled to substantiate this argument.Although Micronesia constitutes a coherent geographic region, it is sometimes dismissed as having little or no validity as an ethnological concept. Archaeological and linguistic evidence make it clear that the eastern and western reaches of the area were initially settled by different peoples moving out of distinctly different homelands, probably at different times. It is primarily because of these disparate origins, as compared, say, to the relative homogeneity of the Polynesians, that the existence of a valid Micronesian culture area is denied, although other sociocultural differences have also been cited (

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Arboriculture in the subsistence of Santa Cruz, Solomon Islands

Cited by 55 publications

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Ethnobotany of Breadfruit in Vanuatu: Review and Prospects

Ethnobotany of Breadfruit in Vanuatu: Review and Prospects

Plant Dispersal, Introduced Species, and Vegetation Change in the South Pacific Kingdom of Tonga

Micronesia's Breadfruit Revolution and the evolution of a Culture Area

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