The ethnobotany of cultivated plants of the Maohi of the Society Islands

Economic Botany

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 73-92

  Lepofsky, Dana ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cultivation; Ethnobotany; Maohi; Society Islands

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038302366     PISSN: 00130001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1663/0013-0001(2003)057[0073:TEOCPO]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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