Emblematic fruit: Mapping aguaje palm fruit vendors during Covid-19 in Iquitos, Peru

Diana Tung (ELP 2018) | Student, Australian National University, Australia

Diana Tung shares a publication from earlier this year as part of her anthropology PhD research on the commercialisation of the aguaje palm (Mauritia flexuosa) from the Peruvian Amazon.

Tung, Diana. "Emblematic fruit: Mapping aguaje palm fruit vendors during Covid-19 in Iquitos, Peru" In Urban Food Mapping: Making Visible the Edible City, edited by K. Bohn and M. Tomkins, 200–209. Routledge: London and New York, 2024.

To access the absract of Diana's work, follow this link: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003352280-22/emblematic-fruit-mapping-aguaje-palm-fruit-vendors-covid-19-iquitos-peru-diana-tung