Tools & tillage: a journal on the history of the implements of cultivation and other agricultural processes (4.1980/1983)

250

REVIEWS

tlement and buildings, and agricultural poli-
cy), are housed in the Empire castle Kacina
near Kutna Hora. The collections relating to
forestry and fish-pond culture, hunting and
fishing are housed in the hunting castle
Ohrada near Hluboka on Vltavou. The col-
lections, displays and exhibitions relating to
the development of vegetable growing, fruit
growing, wine-making in Moravia and to
ornamental gardening are housed in Lednice
castle in Moravia. The permanent display at
Rosice near Brno is devoted to apiculture,
and in Prague (district Repy) to agricultural
engineering and machinery.
To the most valuable collections of this
museum (some of the exhibits are unique)
belongs the collection of ploughing and
dairy implements; the apicultural collection;
a relatively new hop-gardening collection
(field collecting performed by the Museum);
a collection of paleoagrobotanical and
paleoosteological material derived from
Czechoslovak archaeological research; the
collection of hunting weapons, hunting
trophies and preparations; a unique, exten-
sive collection of items related to different
types of fishing in running water and to fish-
pond culture; and a collection of documents,
very important from historical and ethno-
graphical viewpoints. The collections of the
Museum of Agriculture as a whole supple-

ment the outstanding documents of the
Bohemian Estate Archives. They are indis-
pensable for the study of the development of
agricultural and forest production.
In the fifties, the Museum was incorpo-
rated into the Czechoslovak Academy of
Agricultural Science, and became part of its
Cabinet of History of Agriculture and Fore-
stry. This affected the character of scientific
work, which resulted in a more scientifical-
ly-based concept of displays and exhibitions
and in the strictly scientific topics selected
for the articles published in the years 1956-
1958 in ’Historic and MuzejnictvF. Since
1959 these articles have been published in the
year-book, Science Studies of the Museum
of Agriculture (up to now 22 volumes with
enclosures) and in 25 volumes of Trameny a
studie’. On behalf of the International Or-
ganisation of Agricultural Museums, the
bulletin Acta Museorum Agriculturae is
published in Prague. For the bibliography of
these publications see Science Studies of the
Museum of Agriculture 6/1966, 280-284;
12/1972, 287-296; 21/1981.
In der »Zeitschrift fur Agrargeschichte und
Agrarsoziologie« Jahrgang 29, Heft 2, 1981
S. 222-224 ist diese Mitteilung von V. Smelhaus
auf deutsch zu lesen.
(t) Vratislav Smelhaus

REVIEWS

HAROLD C. CONKLIN: Ethnographic Atlas
of Ifugao. A Study of Environment, Culture, and
Society in Northern Luzon. Published with the
Cooperation of The American Geographical So-
ciety of New York. Yale University Press 1980.
1244 pp. 153 maps + 170 black-and-white photo-
graphs. 48.5x40.5 cm. £ 47.00.

Harold C. Conklin is professor of anthropology
at Yale University and curator of Yale’s Peabody
Museum of Natural History. His earlier book on
„Hannunoo Agriculture”, published by FAO in
Rome 1954, was a pioneering work, and now he
has published the result of nearly two decades of
study amongst the Ifugao people in North Cen-