The diffusion of the manioc plant from South America to Africa: An essay in ethnobotanical culture history. Thesis (Ph.D.)
ROSS, H.B
The diffusion of the manioc plant from South America to Africa: An essay in ethnobotanical culture history. Thesis (Ph.D.) - New York, NY, USA Columbia University, Faculty of Political Science 1975 - 135 p
Un resultado notable del descubrimiento del Nuevo Mundo ha sido la difusion de mas de una docena de plantas alimentarias de las Americas a otros continentes. Entre estos alimentos se encuentra la yuca, alimento aparentemente domesticado en el nordeste de America del Sur. Aunque la yuca contiene niveles variables de HCN, los tuberculos se pueden procesar para producir harina, bebidas fermentadas y otros productos alimentarios. La yucao se difundio primero en toda America del Sur segun la evidencia historica y arqueologica. Despues de que Brasil fue conquistado por los portugueses, ellos aprendieron su cultivo y procesamiento y evidentemente llevaron este conocimiento y materiales de siembra a sus colonias de Africa Occidental de donde la yuca se difundio a toda el Africa tropical. Los datos linguisticos senalan que los nombres africanos de la planta y sus productos son similares a la terminologia portuguesa. Los productos alimentarios a base de yuca fueron provisiones muy apropiados en buques portugueses que navegaban entre America del Sur y Africa, y fue probablemente de esta manera que el cultivo se introdujo en Africa, donde es todavia uno de los alimentos de primera necesidad en numerosas zonas. (CIAT) A notable result of the discovery of the New World has been the diffusion of more than a dozen food plants from the Americas to other continents. Among these foods is cassava (Manihot esculenta), a food apparently domesticated in northeastern South America. Although cassava contains varying levels of HCN, the tubers may be processed to yield flour, fermented drinks and other food products. Cassava was first spread throughout South America according to historical and archeological evidence. After the Portuguese conquered Brazil, they learned its cultivation and processing and evidently took this knowledge and planting materials to their West African colonies, from where cassava was diffused throughout tropical Africa. Linguistic data indicate that African names of the plant and its products are similar to Portuguese terminology. Cassava food products were very suitable as provisions on Portuguese ships sailing between South America and Africa, and it was probably in this way that the crop was introduced into Africa, where it is still a staple food in numerous areas. (CIAT)
Africa
Brazil
CASSAVA FLOUR
CASSAVA MEAL
CASSAVA PRODUCTS
CHICKWANGUE
Cultivation
Cytology
DETOXIFICATION PROCESSES
DUMBOI
Fermentation
FOOFOO
GARI
Genetics
History
Human nutrition
Manihot esculenta
Peeling
Plant anatomy
PLANT GEOGRAPHY
PRESSING
RASPING
Taxonomy
CASSAVA PASTES
Detoxification
FOOD PRODUCTS
Manihot
Processed products
Processing
South America
Starch crops
Uses
Thesis Tesis Yuca Cassava Books
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The diffusion of the manioc plant from South America to Africa: An essay in ethnobotanical culture history. Thesis (Ph.D.) - New York, NY, USA Columbia University, Faculty of Political Science 1975 - 135 p
Un resultado notable del descubrimiento del Nuevo Mundo ha sido la difusion de mas de una docena de plantas alimentarias de las Americas a otros continentes. Entre estos alimentos se encuentra la yuca, alimento aparentemente domesticado en el nordeste de America del Sur. Aunque la yuca contiene niveles variables de HCN, los tuberculos se pueden procesar para producir harina, bebidas fermentadas y otros productos alimentarios. La yucao se difundio primero en toda America del Sur segun la evidencia historica y arqueologica. Despues de que Brasil fue conquistado por los portugueses, ellos aprendieron su cultivo y procesamiento y evidentemente llevaron este conocimiento y materiales de siembra a sus colonias de Africa Occidental de donde la yuca se difundio a toda el Africa tropical. Los datos linguisticos senalan que los nombres africanos de la planta y sus productos son similares a la terminologia portuguesa. Los productos alimentarios a base de yuca fueron provisiones muy apropiados en buques portugueses que navegaban entre America del Sur y Africa, y fue probablemente de esta manera que el cultivo se introdujo en Africa, donde es todavia uno de los alimentos de primera necesidad en numerosas zonas. (CIAT) A notable result of the discovery of the New World has been the diffusion of more than a dozen food plants from the Americas to other continents. Among these foods is cassava (Manihot esculenta), a food apparently domesticated in northeastern South America. Although cassava contains varying levels of HCN, the tubers may be processed to yield flour, fermented drinks and other food products. Cassava was first spread throughout South America according to historical and archeological evidence. After the Portuguese conquered Brazil, they learned its cultivation and processing and evidently took this knowledge and planting materials to their West African colonies, from where cassava was diffused throughout tropical Africa. Linguistic data indicate that African names of the plant and its products are similar to Portuguese terminology. Cassava food products were very suitable as provisions on Portuguese ships sailing between South America and Africa, and it was probably in this way that the crop was introduced into Africa, where it is still a staple food in numerous areas. (CIAT)
Africa
Brazil
CASSAVA FLOUR
CASSAVA MEAL
CASSAVA PRODUCTS
CHICKWANGUE
Cultivation
Cytology
DETOXIFICATION PROCESSES
DUMBOI
Fermentation
FOOFOO
GARI
Genetics
History
Human nutrition
Manihot esculenta
Peeling
Plant anatomy
PLANT GEOGRAPHY
PRESSING
RASPING
Taxonomy
CASSAVA PASTES
Detoxification
FOOD PRODUCTS
Manihot
Processed products
Processing
South America
Starch crops
Uses
Thesis Tesis Yuca Cassava Books
4914