Cultivation in Old Samoa

Abstract

T THE study of cultivation as it was practiced in Samoa about 1840 throws light on the degree of human control a stone age Polynesian society exercised over its physical environment. This date, only ten years after the beginning of regular culture contact with Western Civilization, marks the earliest year which permits a fully documented picture of indigenous practices and of the landscape before the intrusion of Western influences significantly modified their nature.1

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