Irrigation's Impact on Society
Editors
Downing, Theodore E.Gibson, McGuire
Issue Date
1974Keywords
Irrigation -- Social aspects -- Congresses.Irrigation -- History -- Congresses.
Agriculture, Prehistoric -- Congresses.
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The Anthropological Papers of the University of Arizona is a peer-reviewed monograph series sponsored by the School of Anthropology. Established in 1959, the series publishes archaeological and ethnographic papers that use contemporary method and theory to investigate problems of anthropological importance in the southwestern United States, Mexico, and related areas.Table of Contents
List of Illustrations / Preface - Theodore E. Downing and McGuire Gibson / Historic Patterns of Mesopotamian Irrigation Agriculture - Robert McC. Adams / Violation of Fallow and Engineered Disaster in Mesopotamian Civilization - McGuire Gibson / Sassanian and Early Islamic Water-Control and Irrigation Systems on the Deh Luran Plain, Iran - James A. Neely / Irrigation and Society: The Iranian Plateau - Brian Spooner / Water Control in Terraced Rice-Field Agriculture in Southeastern Asia - J. E. Spencer / The System Nobody Knows: Village Irrigation in the Swiss Alps - Robert McC. Netting / Organizational Preadaptation to Irrigation: The Evolution of Early Water-Management Systems in Coastal Peru - M. Edward Moseley / Irrigation and Settlement Pattern: Preliminary Research Results from the North Coast of Peru - Ian Farrington / Conservation and Diversion: Water-Control Systems in the Anasazi Southwest - R. Gwinn Vivian / Irrigation and Moisture-Sensitive Periods: A Zapotec Case - Theodore E. Downing / The State's Use of Irrigation in Changing Peasant Society - Susan H. Lees / Irrigation, Conflict, and Politics: A Mexican Case - Eva Hunt and Robert C. Hunt / Irrigation Development and Population Pressure - Wayne Kappel / Comments on the Symposium From a Hydrologic Perspective - Martin M. Fogel / Comments on the Symposium From a Geographic Perspective - Chris Field / IndexType
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