Setting the Stage for Domestication: Brassic Weeds in Andean Peasant Ecology
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JOURNAL:
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Proceedings of the Association of American Geographers,
4(??),
38 -
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YEAR:
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1972
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Journal Article
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None
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Geography
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LANGUAGE:
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English
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PUB ID:
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103-386-064
(Last edited on
2003/01/05 14:07:41 US/Mountain)
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ABSTRACT:
The attractive weed as a precursor of the crop is a twentieth-century notion of the prehistoric process of domestication. Field mustard (Brassica campestris) in Highland Peru exemplifies a contemporary weed-man relationship that reveals how some adventives may have become an operational part of an agricultural system and later developed into bona fide crops. Brassic weed benefits from the preparation of an open habitat, propagation because of seed impurity, and protection; in turn, its edible leaves have been accepted as a useful addition to pasant economy. This initial symbiosis illustrated by brassica may or may not be followed by purposeful cultivation, conscious selection and a domesticated status. More apparent is that the ptoential for the folk domestication of new plants would lessen if cultural acceptance of weedy crop fields were in decline.
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