The Wet and the Dry: Irrigation and Agriculture Intensification in Polynesia. (book reviews)

Patrick V. Kirch, University of Chicago Press, 1994. 385 pp., 113 figures, 13 tables, 1 appendix, glossary, notes, and index.

Patrick Kirch is as near the complete anthropologist as any scholar working in the Pacific today. He is an archaeologist-prehistorian, a cultural ecologist, and cultural anthropologist. The work that he presents here on Futuna and Alofi was begun as dissertation research conducted while he was at Yale University in the mid-1970s. He has continued it over the years since then, and it has more recently been informed by the scholarly style of Bloch and Braudel and ...

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