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• catalog abstract "Here is a broad survey of the eleven main starch foods of Polynesia and Micronesia that draws together previously scattered information and explores both explicit and implicit expressions of food habits associated with these staples. This study addresses the question of South Pacific peoples retaining their cultural and dietary attachment to traditional food sources despite Westernization. Why does the use of root and tree starches such as taro, yams, and breadfruit persist despite the availability of other foods? What in fact are the local concepts of food and the values attached to it? Using approaches of symbolic anthropology, social ecology, and household economy, Nancy J. Pollock explores the values of food beyond the Western concept - as a collection of energy inputs the individual body needs to function - to establish the broader role food plays in the world view of certain Pacific Island societies - that of a symbol of power and well-being that structures social life. The author finds that food comprises a carefully categorized set of symbols that help determine thought and action in Pacific societies. Food is a culture pattern, unique to each society. But some patterns are also shared and those shared patterns are due to links in times past. Pollock investigates the cultural mechanisms that have allowed certain distinct features associated with food to remain in the face of many intrusions to those societies. Extensively reviewed are the sociocultural, archeological-historical, and scientific literature on the topic, ranging from the records of early explorers, missionaries, and pioneer ethnographers to those of modern medical, nutritional, and ethnobotanical researchers, along with observations from the author's personal fieldwork. Among the topics covered are: classification, feasts, food tabus, language aspects, decision making, cooking and preservation technology, land use and control, urban food patterns, food policy issues such as dependency and import substitution, identity issues, local concepts of food and health, the impact of Western concepts, and evaluations of Pacific diets including nutritional value of the starches and epidemiological studies of the relation of food to obesity, diabetes, and heart disease. Reference tables and an extensive bibliography collate data on societies from Fiji to French Polynesia, the Marshall Islands to Palau. These Roots Remain provides wide-ranging, even provocative information to a general audience interested in South Pacific peoples and in understanding food habits in a broad theoretical framework. Government officials, development economists, social scientists, and health professionals will find the questions explored here of value in shaping future research.".
• catalog contributor b3788280.
• catalog coverage "Micronesia Social life and customs.".
• catalog coverage "Polynesia Social life and customs.".
• catalog created "1992.".
• catalog date "1992".
• catalog date "1992.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "1992.".
• catalog description "1. Introduction -- 2. Food Classification -- 3. Food Choices -- 4. Cooking -- 5. Preservation and Storage of Foods -- 6. Feasts and Ceremonial Presentations -- 7. Food Production and Land Tenure -- 8. Taro for Sale -- 9. Food and Health -- 10. Evaluating Pacific Diets -- 11. Conclusions -- App A Characteristics of Starch Food Plants of the Pacific -- App B Proto-Malayo-Polynesian and Proto-Oceanic Lexical Reconstructions Associated with Edible Plants -- App C1 Origin and Distribution of Taro in the Pacific (map) -- App C2 Distribution of Breadfruit in the Pacific (map) -- App D Breadfruit in the Pacific: Local Names and Main Season.".
• catalog description "Among the topics covered are: classification, feasts, food tabus, language aspects, decision making, cooking and preservation technology, land use and control, urban food patterns, food policy issues such as dependency and import substitution, identity issues, local concepts of food and health, the impact of Western concepts, and evaluations of Pacific diets including nutritional value of the starches and epidemiological studies of the relation of food to obesity, diabetes, and heart disease. Reference tables and an extensive bibliography collate data on societies from Fiji to French Polynesia, the Marshall Islands to Palau. These Roots Remain provides wide-ranging, even provocative information to a general audience interested in South Pacific peoples and in understanding food habits in a broad theoretical framework. Government officials, development economists, social scientists, and health professionals will find the questions explored here of value in shaping future research.".
• catalog description "Here is a broad survey of the eleven main starch foods of Polynesia and Micronesia that draws together previously scattered information and explores both explicit and implicit expressions of food habits associated with these staples. This study addresses the question of South Pacific peoples retaining their cultural and dietary attachment to traditional food sources despite Westernization. Why does the use of root and tree starches such as taro, yams, and breadfruit persist despite the availability of other foods? What in fact are the local concepts of food and the values attached to it? Using approaches of symbolic anthropology, social ecology, and household economy, Nancy J. Pollock explores the values of food beyond the Western concept - as a collection of energy inputs the individual body needs to function - to establish the broader role food plays in the world view of certain Pacific Island societies - that of a symbol of power and well-being that structures social life. ".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
• catalog description "The author finds that food comprises a carefully categorized set of symbols that help determine thought and action in Pacific societies. Food is a culture pattern, unique to each society. But some patterns are also shared and those shared patterns are due to links in times past. Pollock investigates the cultural mechanisms that have allowed certain distinct features associated with food to remain in the face of many intrusions to those societies. Extensively reviewed are the sociocultural, archeological-historical, and scientific literature on the topic, ranging from the records of early explorers, missionaries, and pioneer ethnographers to those of modern medical, nutritional, and ethnobotanical researchers, along with observations from the author's personal fieldwork. ".
• catalog extent "xv, 298 p. :".
• catalog hasFormat "These roots remain.".
• catalog identifier "093915451X (alk. paper) :".
• catalog isFormatOf "These roots remain.".
• catalog issued "1992".
• catalog issued "1992.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Laie, Hawaii : Institute for Polynesian Studies : Distributed for the Institute for Polynesian Studies by the University of Hawaii Press,".
• catalog relation "These roots remain.".
• catalog spatial "Micronesia Social life and customs.".
• catalog spatial "Micronesia.".
• catalog spatial "Polynesia Social life and customs.".
• catalog spatial "Polynesia.".
• catalog subject "394.1/2/0996 20".
• catalog subject "Anthropology, Physical Micronesia.".
• catalog subject "Anthropology, Physical Polynesia.".
• catalog subject "Diet Micronesia.".
• catalog subject "Diet Polynesia.".
• catalog subject "Food Habits Micronesia.".
• catalog subject "Food Habits Polynesia.".
• catalog subject "Food Micronesia.".
• catalog subject "Food Polynesia.".
• catalog subject "Food Symbolic aspects.".
• catalog subject "Food habits Micronesia.".
• catalog subject "Food habits Polynesia.".
• catalog subject "GN670 .P59 1992".
• catalog subject "Nutritional anthropology Micronesia.".
• catalog subject "Nutritional anthropology Polynesia.".
• catalog subject "QT 235 P777t 1992".
• catalog subject "Symbolism Micronesia.".
• catalog subject "Symbolism Polynesia.".
• catalog tableOfContents "1. Introduction -- 2. Food Classification -- 3. Food Choices -- 4. Cooking -- 5. Preservation and Storage of Foods -- 6. Feasts and Ceremonial Presentations -- 7. Food Production and Land Tenure -- 8. Taro for Sale -- 9. Food and Health -- 10. Evaluating Pacific Diets -- 11. Conclusions -- App A Characteristics of Starch Food Plants of the Pacific -- App B Proto-Malayo-Polynesian and Proto-Oceanic Lexical Reconstructions Associated with Edible Plants -- App C1 Origin and Distribution of Taro in the Pacific (map) -- App C2 Distribution of Breadfruit in the Pacific (map) -- App D Breadfruit in the Pacific: Local Names and Main Season.".
• catalog title "These roots remain : food habits in islands of the central and eastern Pacific since western contact / Nancy J. Pollock.".
• catalog type "text".