permaculture

[Toby Hemenway <hemenway@jeffnet.org>]

Hi Marsha: I've got a few references for you on cultivated plant history
(one of my favorite subjects!).  The goldmine is the journal, Economic
Botany. Can you get that in Brazil (at university libraries)? They have a
website, http://www.econbot.org that, if I remember correctly, lets you
search the journal index. You can look for general review articles or for
specific species.

Web searches under "economic botany" or under  +"cultivated plant*" +
history OR evolution will get lots of hits that should help you, though I
haven't gone through them except cursorily. Your course sounds great; wish
I was there to take it.

A few of my favorite books are listed below. They're all in English (the
last is translated from Russian), so I don't know how much good this will
do you.

The classic work, old but learned and beautifully written, is: Sauer, Carl
Ortwin. Agricultural origins and dispersals. New York, American
Geographical Society, 1952

Hutchinson, Joseph Burtt. Essays on crop plant evolution.
Cambridge, University Press, 1965

Zohary, Daniel. Domestication of plants in the Old World: the
origin and spread of cultivated plants in West Asia, Europe, and the
Nile Valley. Oxford University Press, 1993

Evolution of crop plants / edited by N. W. Simmonds.
York : Longman, 1976

Zhukovskii, P. M. (Petr Mikhailovich) Cultivated plants and their wild
relatives, by P. M. Zukovskij. Abridged translation by P. S. Hudson
Publisher[Farnham Royal, Bucks., Eng.] Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux
[1962]

There are lots more; a search at a university library will get them, if you
have time before the course.

Toby