Title Water and power in highland Peru : the cultural politics of irrigation and development / Paul H. Gelles

Published New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2000

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 233 pages) : illustrations, maps Contents 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-222) and index Notes English Print version record Subject Quechua Indians -- Agriculture -- Peru -- Cabanaconde Irrigation -- Social aspects -- Peru -- Cabanaconde 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 SUBJECT Cabanaconde (Peru) -- Politics and government Cabanaconde (Peru) -- Ethnic relations Subject Peru Peru -- Cabanaconde Form Electronic book ISBN 0585332673 9780585332673 9780813528069 0813528062 9780813528076 0813528070 0813560187 9780813560182

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