ABSTRACT
Since agriculture in 1929 was basic to the Tikopia economy an important question in 1952 was to find out what changes, if any, had taken place in the interim, not only in agricultural practices but in particular as regards control over land. It was not easy to disentangle the general changes that had taken place in agriculture, including land holding, over a generation, from the special influences of hurricane and drought in 1952. But some differences were fairly clearly due, not to the immediate crisis, but to more long-term influences, which hurricane and drought had merely exacerbated.
