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What was the purpose of Ellen’s research? What main conclusions were drawn?Is this an interdisciplinary study? Explain your answer.Why is the number of structural components of the extraction apparatus not necessarily a gauge of the complexity or efficiency of the process?What basic principles had to have been known to develop the technology?Why would this method of starch extraction not be applicable to sugar extraction?Examine the location of Seram (formerly Ceram) in an atlas. What was its role during the years of the spice trade?
	
Document Preview: Processing Metroxylon sagu Rottboell (Arecaceae) as a Technological Complex: A Case Study
from South Central Seram, Indonesia
Author(s): Roy Ellen
Source: Economic Botany, Vol. 58, No. 4 (Winter, 2004), pp XXXXXXXXXX
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All use subject to JSTOR Terms and ConditionsPROCESSING METROXYLON SAGU ROTTBOELL (ARECACEAE) AS 
A TECHNOLOGICAL COMPLEX: A CASE STUDY FROM SOUTH 
CENTRAL SERAM, INDONESIA1 
RoY ELLEN 
Ellen, Roy (Ethnobiology Laboratory, Department of Anthropology, University of Kent at Can- 
terbury, CT2 7NS, UK). PROCESSING METROXYLON SAGU ROTrBOELL (ARECACEAE) AS A TECHNO- 
LOGICAL COMPLEX: A CASE STUDY FROM SOUTH CENTRAL SERAM, INDONESIA. Economic Botany 
58(4):601-625, 2004. Presented here is an examination of the technological process whereby 
the stem pith of Metroxylon sagu Rottboell is transformed into edible starch by the Nuaulu 
people of south central Seram, Maluku, Indonesia. The analysis seeks to describe the 
underlying 
local knowledge and practices involved, with a view to refuting the assertion that sago extrac- 
tion is an intuitively and technically 
simple solution to food...

Robert · Accepted Answer

1- The main purpose of Ellen’s research was to describe the underlying local knowledge and practices involved, with a view to deny the assertion that sago extraction is an intuitively and technically simple solution to food provision for those reluctant to adopt 'proper' agriculture. The different conclusions which were drawn here are as follows :- 
a- The extraction process involves a lot of physical activities which are variable in nature. 
b- There is also variation found in the quantitative and qualitative characteristics of material structures and modes of operation for processing of sago. 
c- There should be oversimplification of the different processes since there are a lot of variability found in the ecology, management, methods of working and also productivity to some extent. 
d- The extraction and processing of sago starch is a technically complex solution to a problem of food-gathering. 
e- Persons adept in the knowhow of operation of the equipments should be employed in the process of extraction. 
2- Yes the study so carried out is an interdisciplinary study since it involves the minute analysis of the process of extraction of the sago palm.

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