Wild plants as food and medicine in Polynesia
Cox PA. 1994. Wild plants as food and medicine in Polynesia. Pages 102-113. In Etkin NL (ed). Eating on the wild Ssde: the pharmacologic, ecologic and social implications of using noncultigens. University of Arizona Press. Tucson, AZ
The use of wild plants for durable goods (e.g. kava bowls, canoes, fine mats), food only during times of famine, and as ethnomedicine is explained in this chapter.
- Type
- Book Chapter
- Authors
- Cox, Paul
- Units
- NPSA , PACN
- Keywords
- ethnopharmacopology, Food, medicine, Plant Studies, Western Samoa, wild plants