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Author : Roland Clifford Holmes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Irrigation in Southern Peru written by Roland Clifford Holmes and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul H. Gelles
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813528076
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (28 download)
Download or read book Water and Power in Highland Peru written by Paul H. Gelles and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cabanaconde, a town of 5,000 people, is located in the arid Andean highlands. It is dominated by the foreboding Hualca Hualca mountain peak that is the source of this town's much-needed water. How the villagers obtain this water, Paul Gelles writes, is not a simple process: the politics of irrigation in this area reflect a struggle for control of vital resources, deeply rooted in the clash between local, ritualized models of water distribution and the secular model put forth by the Peruvian state. Water and Power in Highland Peru provides an insightful case study on the intense conflicts over water rights, and a framework for studying ethnic conflict and the effects of "development," not only in Peru, but in other areas as well. Most of the inhabitants of Cabanaconde do not identify themselves with the dominant Spanish-speaking culture found in Peru. And the Peruvian state, grounded in a racist, post-Colonial ethos, challenges the village's long-standing, non-Western framework for organizing water management. Gelles demonstrates that Andean culture is dynamic and adaptive, and it is a powerful source of ethnic identity, even for those who leave the village to live elsewhere. Indigenous rituals developed in this part of the world, he states, have become powerful tools of resistance against interference by local elites and the present-day Peruvian state. Most importantly, the micropolitics of Cabanaconde provide a window into a struggle that is taking place around the world.
Author : Paul B. Trawick
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804731381
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)
Download or read book The Struggle for Water in Peru written by Paul B. Trawick and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ecological history of peasant society in the Peruvian Andes focuses on the politics of irrigation and water management in three villages whose terraces and canal systems date back to Inca times. Set in a remote valley, the book tells a story of domination and resulting social decline, showing how basic changes in the use of land, water, and labor have been pivotal in transforming the indigenous way of life. The author carries out a comparison of contemporary practices in communities that vary systematically along certain dimensions. He analyzes the communities’ similarities and differences in hydraulic organization, landscaping, water use, and other variables. Strikingly diverse patterns appear in local practice, which prove to be the key to unraveling the area’s history. The book concludes by describing the recent intensification of a water conflict. This struggle between peasants and former landlords ultimately led villagers to rise up against the national government. The story culminates in the violent intrusion of the revolutionary group known as Shining Path.
Author : Roland C. Holmes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780608022543
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (225 download)
Download or read book Irrigation in Southern Peru written by Roland C. Holmes and published by . This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Katharina Jeanne Schreiber
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739106419
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (64 download)
Download or read book Irrigation and Society in the Peruvian Desert written by Katharina Jeanne Schreiber and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Irrigation and Society: The Puquios of Nasca looks at the legendary puquios of Nasca, the underground aqueduct system built by Incans which is arguably responsible for this desert region's strange abundance of water. Authors Katharina Schreiber and Josuz Lancho explore the puqios, their probable means of construction and their function in ancient society to address the larger issue of the role of large scale irrigation in the emergence of soci-political complexity.
Author : Joe Makuch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Agricultural Perspectives on Water Resource Management in the Americas, January 1985 - July 1993 written by Joe Makuch and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stephanie Rost
Publisher : Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
ISBN 13 : 1614910723
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (149 download)
Download or read book Irrigation in Early States written by Stephanie Rost and published by Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. This book was released on 2022-06-30 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Irrigation has long been of interest in the study of the past. Many early civilizations were located in river valleys, and irrigation was of great economic importance for many early states because of the key role it played in producing an agricultural surplus, which was the main source of wealth and the basis of political power for the elites who controlled it. Agricultural surplus was also necessary to maintain the very features of statehood, such as urbanism, full-time labor specialization, state institutions, and status hierarchy. Yet, the presence of large-scale or complex irrigation systems does not necessarily mean that they were under centralized control. While some early states organized the construction, operation, and maintenance of irrigation works and resolved conflicts related to water distribution, other early governments left most of the management to local farmers and controlled only the surplus. The cross-cultural studies in this volume reexamine the role of irrigation in early states. Ranging geographically from South America and the southwestern United States to North Africa, the Middle East, and Asia, they describe the physical attributes and environments of early irrigation systems; various methods for empirical investigation of ancient irrigation; and irrigation's economic, sociopolitical, and cosmological dimensions. Through their interdisciplinary perspectives, the authors-all experts in the field of irrigation studies-advance both methodological and theoretical approaches to understanding irrigation in early civilizations.
Author : Joe Makuch
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780788121647
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (216 download)
Download or read book Agricultural Perspectives on Water Resource Management in the America's written by Joe Makuch and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1995-08 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains 224 citations on the topic of water resource management in the U.S., Canada, Central & South America. Includes articles on rural perspectives, water pollution, water quality, etc. Most citations contain abstracts. Author & subject index.
Author : Dorothy Allison Sisson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Irrigation in South America written by Dorothy Allison Sisson and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Carroll Taylor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (359 download)
Download or read book Historical Review of the International Water-resources Program of the U.S. Geological Survey, 1940-70 written by George Carroll Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Helaine Silverman
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9780387752280
Total Pages : 1228 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (522 download)
Download or read book Handbook of South American Archaeology written by Helaine Silverman and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-04-04 with total page 1228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perhaps the contributions of South American archaeology to the larger field of world archaeology have been inadequately recognized. If so, this is probably because there have been relatively few archaeologists working in South America outside of Peru and recent advances in knowledge in other parts of the continent are only beginning to enter larger archaeological discourse. Many ideas of and about South American archaeology held by scholars from outside the area are going to change irrevocably with the appearance of the present volume. Not only does the Handbook of South American Archaeology (HSAA) provide immense and broad information about ancient South America, the volume also showcases the contributions made by South Americans to social theory. Moreover, one of the merits of this volume is that about half the authors (30) are South Americans, and the bibliographies in their chapters will be especially useful guides to Spanish and Portuguese literature as well as to the latest research. It is inevitable that the HSAA will be compared with the multi-volume Handbook of South American Indians (HSAI), with its detailed descriptions of indigenous peoples of South America, that was organized and edited by Julian Steward. Although there are heroic archaeological essays in the HSAI, by the likes of Junius Bird, Gordon Willey, John Rowe, and John Murra, Steward states frankly in his introduction to Volume Two that “arch- ology is included by way of background” to the ethnographic chapters.
Author : Lisa Cliggett
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
ISBN 13 : 9780759111165
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (111 download)
Download or read book Economies and the Transformation of Landscape written by Lisa Cliggett and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 2008 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Economies and the Transformation of Landscape explores both the general and specific ways in which local economic ventures around the world, such as mining, ranching, and farming, affect the environment.
Author : Lucas C. Kellett
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 131736967X
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)
Download or read book Settlement Ecology of the Ancient Americas written by Lucas C. Kellett and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this exciting new volume several leading researchers use settlement ecology, an emerging approach to the study of archaeological settlements, to examine the spatial arrangement of prehistoric settlement patterns across the Americas. Positioned at the intersection of geography, human ecology, anthropology, economics and archaeology, this diverse collection showcases successful applications of the settlement ecology approach in archaeological studies and also discusses associated techniques such as GIS, remote sensing and statistical and modeling applications. Using these methodological advancements the contributors investigate the specific social, cultural and environmental factors which mediated the placement and arrangement of different sites. Of particular relevance to scholars of landscape and settlement archaeology, Settlement Ecology of the Ancient Americas provides fresh insights not only into past societies, but also present and future populations in a rapidly changing world.
Author : Jerry D. Moore
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
ISBN 13 : 1607323338
Total Pages : 553 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (73 download)
Download or read book A Prehistory of South America written by Jerry D. Moore and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Prehistory of South America is an overview of the ancient and historic native cultures of the entire continent of South America based on the most recent archaeological investigations. This accessible, clearly written text is designed to engage undergraduate and beginning graduate students in anthropology. For more than 12,000 years, South American cultures ranged from mobile hunters and gatherers to rulers and residents of colossal cities. In the process, native South American societies made advancements in agriculture and economic systems and created great works of art—in pottery, textiles, precious metals, and stone—that still awe the modern eye. Organized in broad chronological periods, A Prehistory of South America explores these diverse human achievements, emphasizing the many adaptations of peoples from a continent-wide perspective. Moore examines the archaeologies of societies across South America, from the arid deserts of the Pacific coast and the frigid Andean highlands to the humid lowlands of the Amazon Basin and the fjords of Patagonia and beyond. Illustrated in full color and suitable for an educated general reader interested in the Precolumbian peoples of South America, A Prehistory of South America is a long overdue addition to the literature on South American archaeology.
Author : Christopher J Barrow
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135048347
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Alternative Irrigation written by Christopher J Barrow and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to runoff agriculture - a form of agricultural irrigation - this text describes how the use of surface and subsurface water, often overlooked and wasted, enables both small farmers and commercial agriculturists to improve yields and the security of harvest, even in harsh and remote environments. The text introduces the techniques and strategies, as well as the challenges and the potential of the crucial approach, which can contribute so much to reducing land degradation and improving conservation and sustainability.
Author : Daniel Moran
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
ISBN 13 : 1589017552
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Climate Change and National Security written by Daniel Moran and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-22 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this unique and innovative contribution to environmental security, an international team of scholars explore and estimate the intermediate-term security risks that climate change may pose for the United States, its allies and partners, and for regional and global order through the year 2030. In profiles of forty-two key countries and regions, each contributor considers the problems that climate change will pose for existing institutions and practices. By focusing on the conduct of individual states or groups of nations, the results add new precision to our understanding of the way environmental stress may be translated into political, social, economic, and military challenges in the future. Countries and regions covered in the book include China, Vietnam, The Philippines, Indonesia, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Central Asia, the European Union, the Persian Gulf, Egypt, Turkey, the Maghreb, West Africa, Southern Africa, the Northern Andes, and Brazil.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1136 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Water and Water Engineering written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 1136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
