Irrigation's impact on society / collaborating authors, Robert McC. Adams ... [et al.] ; editors, Theodore E. Downing and McGuire Gibson. - Tucson : University of Arizona Press, 1974. - xi, 181 p. : ill. ; 27 cm. - Anthropological papers of the University of Arizona ; no. 25 . - Anthropological papers of the University of Arizona no. 25. .

Papers from a symposium presented at the 1972 meeting of the Southwestern Anthropological Association, Long Beach, Calif.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Historic patterns of Mesopotamian irrigation agriculture / Violation of fallow and engineered disaster in Mesopotamian civilization / Sassanian and early Islamic water-control and irrigation systems on the Deh Luran Plain, Iran / Irrigation and society : the Iranian Plateau / Water control in terraced rice-field agriculture in Southeastern Asia / System nobody knows : village irrigation in the Swiss Alps / Organizational preadaptation to irrigation : the evolution of early water-management systems in coastal Peru / Irrigation and settlement pattern : preliminary research results from the north coast of Peru / Conservation and diversion : water-control systems in the Anasazi southwest / Irrigation and moisture-sensitive periods : a Zapotec case / State's use of irrigation in chnaging peasant society / Irrigation, conflict, and politics : a Mexican case / Irrigation development and population pressure / Comments on the Symposium from a hydrologic perspective / Comments on the Symposium from a geographic perspective / Robert McC. Adams -- McGuire Gibson -- James A. Neely -- Brian Spooner -- J.E. Spencer -- Robert McC. Netting -- M. Edward Moseley -- Ian Farrington -- R. Gwinn Vivian -- Theodore E. Downing -- Susan H. Lees -- Eva Hunt and Robert C. Hunt -- Wayne Kappel -- Martin M. Fogel -- Chris Field.

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