The Snake with Golden Braids

Society, Nature, and Technology in Andean Irrigation

Stephen G. Bunker (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

136 Seiten

2006
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-0-7391-1197-0 (ISBN)

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The Snake With Golden Braids seeks to understand how local inhabitants of the extraordinarily rugged Andean topography of Huanoquite, Peru came to understand their landscape and then build and maintain a system of irrigation ditches across it. The Huanoquiteno's original solution, a conceptually and architecturally complex irrigation system, was abandoned after the Spanish conquest of Peru, and replaced by a simpler, yet still complex, system, which is still in place today. Stephen G. Bunker combines a history of these systems with a rethinking of the local myths, legends, and environment to help make sense of the land and its uses. This book follows his intellectual and spiritual journey to learn not just about building and managing irrigation ditches, but about the very different ways of knowing the environment and the spirits of the earth that informed and empowered the original builders. Bunker's first-hand experience and research will prove an invaluable asset to sociologists, anthropologists, and environmentalists.

Stephen G. Bunker is professor of sociology at University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Chapter 1 The Huanoquite Water Works: Environmental Sensitivity and Technological Innovation
Chapter 2 Mountains, Rivers, and Valleys
Chapter 3 Fitting Tame Ditches into a Wild Landscape
Chapter 4 Power, Property, and Technology
Chapter 5 Cosmology, Society, and Nature

Erscheint lt. Verlag	13.6.2006
Sprache	englisch
Maße	161 x 234 mm
Gewicht	349 g
Themenwelt	Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	0-7391-1197-3 / 0739111973
ISBN-13	978-0-7391-1197-0 / 9780739111970
Zustand	Neuware