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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- 1 Conflict, Migration, and the Expression of Ethnicity: Introduction -- 2 Revolution and Ethnic Identity: The Nicaraguan Case -- 3 Symbolic Imperatives for a Democratic Peace in Guatemala -- 4 Internal and External Identity Among Kanjobal Mayan Refugees in Florida -- 5 Ethnicity and Identity Among Migrant Guestworkers in West Berlin -- 6 The Christian Palestinians of Honduras: An Uneasy Accommodation -- 7 Refugees in Belize: A Cauldron of Ethnic Tensions -- 8 Lebanon's Protracted Conflict: Causes and Consequences -- 9 Conflict, Migration, and Ethnicity: A Summary -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Contributors.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title -- Copyright -- About the Book -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Foreword -- About the Editor and Authors -- Introduction -- 1 An Empirical Approach to Prehistoric Agrarian Collapse: The Case of the Moche Valley, Peru -- The Desert -- Environmental Change -- Canal Strategy -- Complementary Strategies -- Social Setting -- The Moche Valley Agricultural System -- Early Agricultuve -- Later Prehistory -- Agrarian Collapse -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References -- 2 Farmers and Technical Experts: Information Flow in Irrigated Agriculture -- Introduation -- Case I: The Rusty Tractor Syndrome -- Case II: The Virgin Canals Syndrome -- Case III: The "My Superiors Have Not Yet Answered My Letter" Syndrome -- Israeli Observations -- Case I: The Telephone Factor -- Case II: The Muddy Feet Factor -- Analysis -- Conclusions -- Notes -- 3 Human Use of the Pre-Saharan Ecosystem and Its Impact on Desertization -- Introduction -- The Energy Flow Approach to the Study of Human Ecology -- The Value of Energy Flow Studies for Planners of Economic Policy in Developing Arid Regions -- Economic Production in Southern Tunisia -- Annual Differences in Soil Disturbance from Human Economic Activity -- Land Use Strategies in Southern Tunisia -- Prospects for Developing Land Use Alternatives -- References -- 4 Utilization of Surface Water by Northern Arabian Bedouins -- 5 Agroecosystem Diversity: A Model from the Sonoran Desert -- Ephemerals -- Root Perennials -- Columnar Cacti -- Desert Trees and Shrubs -- Seagrasses -- Saltgrass -- Summary -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 6 A Rational-Choice Model of Agricultural Resource Utilization and Conservation -- Introduction -- Rational-Choice Models and Agricultural Decisions -- The Model -- Agrarian Development -- End Notes -- References.

Opportunities to revisit a remote field site studied many years before are relatively rare in anthropology generally, but when the location happens to be China, we simply do not expect them to occur. It is, therefore, all the more remarkable that the village of Kaixiangong, first presented to the scholarly world in Fei Xiaotong's Peasant Life in China, should have been further described by William R. Geddes in 1955 and by Fei himself after a 1957 visit. When invited by the China Association for Science and Technology (CAST) to visit China in the summer of 1981 to undertake a scientific study of my choice, I was intrigued when Professor Fei suggested I request permission to go to Kaixiangong, and delighted when it was granted. I stayed in the community four days and nights during September, and the following is based on information gathered then.

The author, who visited the village Kaixiangong in Jiangsu province in 1981, reports the changes in population, land utilization, family and household structure, new houses, factories etc in the village. Society and economy of this village were described by Fei Xiaotong in 1935 and again in 1957 and by William R. Geddes in 1955. The author compares her impression of the village with those of Fei Xiaotong and W.R. Geddes. (DÜI-Sen)