The wet and the dry : irrigation and agricultural intensification in Polynesia /
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Author / Creator: | Kirch, Patrick Vinton |
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Imprint: | Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c1994. |
Description: | xxii, 385 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
Language: | English |
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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 |
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