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THE SWEET POTATO IN OCEANIA: A REAPPRAISAL (2005)

Ballard, Chris, Paula Brown, R. Michael Bourke, and Tracey Harwood (eds.) 

1. Still Good to Think With: The Sweet Potato in Oceania
Chris Ballard

2. Sweet Potato in Papua New Guinea: The Plant and People
R. Michael Bourke

3. Needles in a Haystack: Searching for Sweet Potato (Ipomoea batatas(L.) Lam.) in the Fossil Pollen Record
Simon G. Haberle and Gill Atkin

4. Kumara in the Ecuadorian Gulf of Guayaquil?
Richard Scaglion

5. Sweet Potato Transfers in Polynesian Prehistory
R. C. Green

6. Ufi Kumara, The Sweet Potato as Yam
Helen Leach

7. An Ipomoean Landscape: Archaeology and the Sweet Potato in Kahikinui, Maui, Hawaiian Islands
James Coil and Patrick V. Kirch

8. Sweet Potato Production on Rapa Nui
Paul Wallin, Christopher Stevenson, and Thegn Ladefoged

9. Of Kumara and Canoes: Maori and Hawaiian Mythologies and American Contacts
Serge Dunis

10. The Evidence for Sweet Potato in Island Melanesia
Matthew G. Allen

11. Archaeological Evidence for the Ipomoean Revolution at Kuk Swamp, Upper Wahgi Valley, Papua New Guinea 
Tim Bayliss-Smith, Jack Golson, Philip Hughes, Russell Blong, and Wal Ambrose

12. Social, Symbolic, And Ritual Roles of the Sweet Potato in Enga, From Its Introduction until First Contact
Polly Wiessner

13. Sweet Potato, Pigs and the Chimbu of the Papua New Guinea Highlands
Paula Brown and Harold Brookfield

14. Beyond the Ipomoean Revolution: Sweet Potato on the “Fringe” of the Papua New Guinea Highlands
David J. Boyd

15. Sweet Potato in the Central Highlands of West New Guinea
Anton Ploeg

16. Sweet Potato Research and Development in Papua, Indonesia: A Review
Alexander Yaku and Caecilia A. Widyastuti

17. The Continuing Ipomoean Revolution in Papua New Guinea
R. Michael Bourke
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18. Reflection, Refraction and Recombination
Douglas E. Yen