Botany 105
Ethnobotany
General Information
Topics
- Early man in the Pacific
- Tools and early agriculture
- Settlement of Polynesia and Polynesian outliers
- Settling the Hawaiian Islands (Archaeology)
- Plants brought by Polynesians
- Plants and Religion
- Plants I: Vegetatively propagated
- Lab: Taro and propagation of plants
- Plants II. Food plants -- taro
- Plants III. Food plants -- sweet potatoes
- Lab: Taro and sweet potato varieties; folk taxonomy
- Plants IV. Food plants -- breadfruit, bananas
- Plants V. Food plants -- yams, coconut, sugarcane, ti, "famine" foods
- Lab: Ever eat breadfruit? Are yams orange? What about those famine foods?
- Food from the sea: limu and fishing
- "Fish and Poi" Hawaiian diet: was it good for you?
- Lab: A diversity of food plants (land and sea)
- Nets, featherwork and basketry ('upena, hina'i, mahiole)
- 'ie'ie basketry, fishtraps, nets
- Clothing I. Tapa: the fabric
- Clothing II. Tapa: ornamentation and comparisions
- Lab: Tapa
- Cordage: Tying, supporting, carrying things
- Houses
- Lab: Uses and functions of cordage; house building
- House furnishings: Storage, mats, hardwoods
- Canoes
- Lab: House furnishings; canoe woods
- Musical instruments
- Lei and lei making
- Lab: Ever make music with a courd? A pieceof bamboo?
- Medicinal plants
- Endemic plants I. How they got that way
- Endemic plants II. Why they are endangered
- Lab: See the "showcase of evolution," some endemic Hawaiian plants
- Indigenous and introduced plants. Weeds
- A balance between endemin and introduced plants
- Hawaiian conservation values
- Strategies for saving native ecosystems
- Lab: Common Hawaiian plants and medicianl plants
- Review of plants seen in the semester
- Review