TY  - BOOK
AU  - ROSS, H.B
TI  - The diffusion of the manioc plant from South America to Africa: An essay in ethnobotanical culture history. Thesis (Ph.D.)
AV  - 4914 
PY  - 1975///
CY  - New York, NY, USA
PB  - Columbia University, Faculty of Political Science
KW  - Africa
KW  - Brazil
KW  - CASSAVA FLOUR
KW  - CASSAVA MEAL
KW  - CASSAVA PRODUCTS
KW  - CHICKWANGUE
KW  - Cultivation
KW  - Cytology
KW  - DETOXIFICATION PROCESSES
KW  - DUMBOI
KW  - Fermentation
KW  - FOOFOO
KW  - GARI
KW  - Genetics
KW  - History
KW  - Human nutrition
KW  - Manihot esculenta
KW  - Peeling
KW  - Plant anatomy
KW  - PLANT GEOGRAPHY
KW  - PRESSING
KW  - RASPING
KW  - Taxonomy
KW  - CASSAVA PASTES
KW  - Detoxification
KW  - FOOD PRODUCTS
KW  - Manihot
KW  - Processed products
KW  - Processing
KW  - South America
KW  - Starch crops
KW  - Uses
KW  - Thesis
KW  - Tesis
KW  - Yuca
KW  - Cassava
KW  - Books
N2  - 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)
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