Table des matières
Dr Nathalie Mitev-Grey
PrefaceProfessor Dame Marilyn Strathern
ForewordFrançoise Barbira Freedman
Introduction from the editor
Chapter 2. Maenge treatment of domesticates
- The status of horticulture among the Maenge
- The characteristics of Maenge shifting cultivation
- The traditional system
- The mixed taro gardens
- The swidden cycle
- Location of the site
- Vegetation cover
- Soils
- Specific sources of fertility
- Terrain
- Sociological factors
- Distance from settlement
- Removal of the vegetation
- Felling the trees
- Firing
- Planting
- Operations performed during the growth of the taro plants
- The first period of maturation
- The second period of maturation
- Harvesting
- Fallowing
- Kilana e sina (short fallow)
- Kilana e volau (long fallow)
- Valasolo (old garden sites reverting to primary forest)
- Yam gardens
- Tree crops
- Reproduction
- Location
- Appropriation
- Harvesting
- Modification of the system
- Sweet potato fields
- Chineze taro fields
- Coconut plantations
- Productivity and food needs in Matong
Chapter 3. Maenge systems of classification and appellation of domesticates
- Systems of classification
- Maenge taxonomy of plants
- Taxonomy of cultigens
- Taro (mao)
- I.1. “Rubbish taro” (mao e kasau)
- I.2. “Taro of the fire” (mao a poi)
- Cordyline (ela)
- II.1. “small cordyline” (ela e sina)
- II.2. “big cordyline” (ela e volau)
- Taxonomy of tree crops
- Maenge keys
- Perceptual attributes
- Procedure
- Taro
- Leaf
- Petiole
- Corm
- Cordyline
- Stem
- Leaf
- Systems of appellation
- Cultivar names
- Exchange of names
- Cultivates as individuals
Chapter 4. Utilisation of domesticates
- Maenge cooking
- The feminine costume
- Range of choice
- Order of cordylines
- Maenge medicine
- Domesticates: Herbaceous plants
- Hibiscus manihot
- Colocasia esculenta
- Cordyline terminalis
- Cucumis sp.
- Ocimum sanctum
- Zingiber zerumbet
- Domesticates: Tree crops
- Areca catechu
- Artocarpus communis
- Canarium commune
- Cocos nucifera
- Eugenia malaccensis
- Inocarpus fagiferus
- Magic and sorcery
Chapter 5. Gardening rites: an example from the Longueinga
- Summary of the rite
- 1. From selecting to planting
- 2. From planting to harvesting
- 2.1. From planting until the taro reaches its maximum height
- 2.2. From the time the taro has reached its maximum height until the crop is mature
- 3. Harvesting
- A series of transformations
- Transformation of the soil
- Transformation of the taro plant
- First phase
- Second phase
- Transformation of the relationship between the other world and this one
- Analysis of details in sequence 1.b
- The two sticks of Intsia bijuga
- The mue taro stuffed with “excrements of the snake”
- Species with a hard, heavy and lasting wood
- Plant symbolism
