Roger Blench: Ethnobotany: tubers

 

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This page covers all my papers relating to the history of cultivated tubers, particularly yams and taro.

 

Title

Date

Status

 

 

The diffusion of cassava in Africa: lexical and other evidence. Unpublished paper from the ReFlex project.

2014

Unpublished

 

Vernacular names for taro in the Indo-Pacific region and their possible implications for centres of diversification. In: M. Spriggs, D. Addison and P. J. Matthews (eds.) Wet Cultivation of Colocasia esculenta in the Indo-Pacific: Archaeological, Technological, Social, and Biological Perspectives. Osaka: Minpaku.

2012

Published

 

A note on the history of cocoyams. ms.

n.d.

Unpublished

 

Little-known African tubers

n.d.

In prep.

 

Offering of taro at a shrine in Bhaktapur, Nepal

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