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• catalog abstract ""Scholars and researchers have long believed that the ability to irrigate is crucial to the development of civilizations. In this book, archaeologist Patrick Kirch challenges this "hydraulic hypothesis" and provides a more accurate and detailed account of the role of "wet" and "dry" cultivation systems in the development of complex sociopolitical structures." "Examining research on cultural adaptation and ecology in Western Polynesia and utilizing extensive data from a variety of important South Pacific sites, Kirch not only reveals how particular systems of production developed within the constraints imposed by environmental conditions, but also explores the tension that arises between contrasting productive systems with differential abilities to produce surplus. He shows that the near total neglect of short-fallow dryland cultivation, as well as arboriculture, or tree-cropping, has seriously distorted the picture that archaeologists and anthropologists have of agricultural intensification and its relation to complex social structures." "This work, bound to become a classic, will be central to all future discussions of the ecology and politics of agricultural intensification."--Jacket.".
• catalog contributor b6493435.
• catalog created "1994.".
• catalog date "1994".
• catalog date "1994.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "1994.".
• catalog description ""Scholars and researchers have long believed that the ability to irrigate is crucial to the development of civilizations. In this book, archaeologist Patrick Kirch challenges this "hydraulic hypothesis" and provides a more accurate and detailed account of the role of "wet" and "dry" cultivation systems in the development of complex sociopolitical structures." "Examining research on cultural adaptation and ecology in Western Polynesia and utilizing extensive data from a variety of important South Pacific sites, Kirch not only reveals how particular systems of production developed within the constraints imposed by environmental conditions, but also explores the tension that arises between contrasting productive systems with differential abilities to produce surplus. He shows that the near total neglect of short-fallow dryland cultivation, as well as arboriculture, or tree-cropping, has seriously distorted the picture that archaeologists and anthropologists have of agricultural intensification and its relation to complex social structures." "This work, bound to become a classic, will be central to all future discussions of the ecology and politics of agricultural intensification."--Jacket.".
• catalog description "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.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 355-375) and index.".
• catalog extent "xxii, 385 p. :".
• catalog identifier "0226437493 (cloth : alk. paper)".
• catalog issued "1994".
• catalog issued "1994.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Chicago : University of Chicago Press,".
• catalog spatial "Polynesia.".
• catalog spatial "Wallis and Futuna Islands.".
• catalog subject "306.3/49/099616 20".
• catalog subject "Agricultural productivity Polynesia.".
• catalog subject "Agricultural productivity Wallis and Futuna Islands.".
• catalog subject "Agricultural systems Polynesia.".
• catalog subject "Agricultural systems Wallis and Futuna Islands.".
• catalog subject "Ethnology Polynesia.".
• catalog subject "Ethnology Wallis and Futuna Islands.".
• catalog subject "Irrigation farming Wallis and Futuna Islands.".
• catalog subject "S470.P75 K57 1994".
• catalog subject "Shifting cultivation Wallis and Futuna Islands.".
• catalog subject "Traditional farming Polynesia.".
• catalog subject "Traditional farming Wallis and Futuna Islands.".
• catalog tableOfContents "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.".
• catalog title "The wet and the dry : irrigation and agricultural intensification in Polynesia / Patrick Vinton Kirch.".
• catalog type "text".