The Wet and the Dry. Irrigation and Agricultural Intensification in Polynesia.

Patrick Vinton Kirch.

An authoritative examination of the archeological evidence in Western Polynesia that shows how systems of food production developed within the constraints of environmental conditions. It also shows how previous studies of Pacific agricultural intensification have overlooked the contribution of short-fallow dryland cultivation, arbouriculture or tree cropping, and it’s relation to social structures. Photographs and diagrams.

University of Chicago Press, USA, 1994.

ISBN 9780226437491

Hardback with dust jacket. 385 pages.

SECONDHAND. Fine condition.