Senri Ethnological Studies (SES)
No. 78 Irrigated Taro (Colocasia esculenta) in the Indo-Pacific: Biological, Social and Historical Perspectives
March 30, 2012 Publication
Edited by Matthew Spriggs, David Addison and Peter J. Matthews
back numbers- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- List of Figures and Tables
Part I HISTORICAL VIEWS
- From Mendana to Riesenfeld: Early Accounts of and Speculation on Taro Irrigation in the Asia-Pacific Area
- Matthew Spriggs
- Vernacular Names for Taro in the Indo-Pacific Region: Implications for Centres of Diversification and Spread
- Roger M. Blench
- Yu Jing (The Book of Taro)
- Shengzheng Huang (Translated by Jee Yan Chu; introduced by P. J. Matthews)
Part II EASTERN PACIFIC
- The Taro Wars of the Austral Islands, East Polynesia
- Robert Bollt
- Wet Taro Cultivation on Atolls: A Techno-cultural Paradox?
- Jean-Michel Chazine
- Taro Irrigation and Primary State Formation in Hawai'i
- Timothy Earle
- Small Valley Irrigated Taro Agriculture in the Hawaiian Islands: An Extension of the 'Wet and Dry' Hypothesis
- Mark D. McCoy and Michael W. Graves
- Approaches to Dating Wetland Agricultural Features: An Example from Wailau Valley, Moloka'i Island, Hawai'i
- Windy K. McElroy
- Fluctuation in Colocasia Cultivation and Landesque Capital in Navosa, Viti Levu, Fiji
- Trevor King
Part III WESTERN PACIFIC
- 'Certainly the Most Technically Complex Pondfield Irrigation Within Melanesia': Wet Taro Field Systems of New Caledonia
- Christophe Sand
- Produce to Exchange: The Taro Water-Gardens on Vanua Lava (Vanuatu), a Social and Sustainable Place
- Sophie Caillon
- Taro Culture in Western Santo, Vanuatu
- Annie Walter and Fabienne Tzerikiantz
- Irrigated Taro, Malaria and the Expansion of Chiefdoms: Ruta in New Georgia, Solomon Islands
- Tim Bayliss-Smith and Edvard Hviding
- The Decline of Taro and Taro Irrigation in Papua New Guinea
- R. Michael Bourke
Part IV SOUTHEAST ASIA
- Recovering, Analysing and Identifying Colocasia esculenta and Dioscorea spp. from Archaeological Contexts in Timor-Leste
- Nuno Vasco Oliveira
- Taro Before Rice Terraces: Implications of Radiocarbon Determinations, Ethnohistoric Reconstructions, and Ethnography in Dating the Ifugao Terraces
- Stephen B. Acabado
- Ethnobotany and Ecology of Wild Taro (Colocasia esculenta) in the Philippines: Implications for Domestication and Dispersal
- P. J. Matthews, E. M.G. Agoo, D. N. Tandang and D.A. Madulid
CONCLUSION
- Irrigated Taro in the Indo-Pacific: Multiple Perspectives
- Matthew Spriggs and Peter J. Matthews
- Index
- List of Contributors