The wet and the dry : irrigation and agricultural intensification in Polynesia /

The wet and the dry : irrigation and agricultural intensification in Polynesia /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Kirch, Patrick Vinton
Imprint:	Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c1994.
Description:	xxii, 385 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Agricultural systems -- Polynesia. Traditional farming -- Polynesia. Agricultural productivity -- Polynesia. Ethnology -- Polynesia Agricultural systems -- Wallis and Futuna Islands. Traditional farming -- Wallis and Futuna Islands. Agricultural productivity -- Wallis and Futuna Islands. Ethnology -- Wallis and Futuna Islands. Shifting cultivation -- Wallis and Futuna Islands. Irrigation farming -- Wallis and Futuna Islands. Agricultural productivity. Agricultural systems. Ethnology. Irrigation farming. Shifting cultivation. Traditional farming. Polynesia. Wallis and Futuna.
Format:	Print Book
Local Note:	University of Chicago Library's copy 2 has original dust jacket.
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1688193

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ISBN:	0226437493 (alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents:

List of Figures
List of Tables
Preface
1. Introduction
2. Ethnographic Orientations
3. The Agricultural Landscape
4. Crops
5. The Dry: Shifting Cultivation
6. The Wet: Taro Irrigation
7. Nuku: An Agro-Economic System in Sigave
8. The Political Economy of Production
9. Archaeological Perspectives on Futunan Irrigation and Land Use
10. Hawaii
11. Mangaia
12. Tikopia
13. Agricultural Change as History and Process
Appendix. A Note on Field Methods: Futuna-Alofi, 1974
Glossary of Futunan Terms
Notes
References
Index