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Patrick Vinton Kirch

The Wet and the Dry

Irrigation and Agricultural Intensification in Polynesia

408 pages, 113 figures, 15 tables, frontispiece  6 x 9  © 1994

Cloth $75.00

ISBN: 9780226437491   Published January 1995

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
Subjects



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