Water and power in highland Peru : the cultural politics of irrigation and development / Paul H. Gelles.
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TextPublication details: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, �2000.Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 233 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type: - text
- computer
- online resource
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- 9780585332673
- 9780813528069
- 0813528062
- 9780813528076
- 0813528070
- 0813560187
- 9780813560182
- Quechua Indians -- Agriculture -- Peru -- Cabanaconde
- Irrigation -- Social aspects -- Peru -- Cabanaconde
- Cabanaconde (Peru) -- Politics and government
- Cabanaconde (Peru) -- Ethnic relations
- Quechua Indians -- Peru -- Ethnic identity
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Real Estate -- General
- Ethnic relations
- Irrigation -- Social aspects
- Politics and government
- Quechua Indians -- Agriculture
- Quechua Indians -- Ethnic identity
- Peru
- Peru -- Cabanaconde
- Latin America
- Regions & Countries - Americas
- History & Archaeology
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- F3429.3.I77 G45 2000eb
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-222) and index.
Introduction: Channels of Power, Fields of Contention -- History, Community, and Ethnicity in Cabanaconde -- The Political Ecology and Cultural Politics of Irrigation and Land Recovery -- Earth Mother, Cabildos, and Water Ritual -- Dual Organization: Equilibrium, Extraction, and the Cargo of Water Mayor -- The Power of the Pen: Patriarchs, Pudientes, and the State Model of Irrigation -- Water Politics and Distribution on the Ground -- Conclusion: the Cultural Politics of Irrigation, Community, and Development in the Andes.
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