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Irrigation's impact on society / collaborating authors, Robert McC. Adams ... [et al.] ; editors, Theodore E. Downing and McGuire Gibson.

Contributor(s): Gibson, McGuire [ed.] | Adams, Robert McC. (Robert McCormick), 1926- | Downing, Theodore E [ed.] | Downing, Theodore E [editor.] | Gibson, McGuire [editor.] | Southwestern Anthropological AssociationMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Anthropological papers of the University of Arizona ; no. 25.Publication details: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, 1974. Description: xi, 181 p. : ill. ; 27 cmISBN: 0816504199 :Subject(s): Irrigation -- Social aspects -- Congresses | Irrigation -- History -- Congresses | Traditional farming -- Congresses | Agriculture, Prehistoric -- CongressesGenre/Form: Conference papers and proceedings | History | Conference papers and proceedings. | Conference papers and proceedings. | History.DDC classification: 631.7 LOC classification: GN443 | .I77
Contents:
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 -- 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 -- State's use of irrigation in chnaging 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.
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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 / 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 -- 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 -- State's use of irrigation in chnaging 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.