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Stephen G. Bunker - Snake with Golden Braids, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2006

Snake with Golden Braids

Society, Nature, and Technology in Andean Irrigation

Av Stephen G. Bunker

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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.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2006-04-13
  • Mått: 161 x 234 x 17 mm
  • Vikt: 349 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 136
  • Förlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
  • ISBN: 9780739111970
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Stephen G. Bunker is professor of sociology at University of Wisconsin, Madison.

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Although the engineered landscape has received considerable attention in anthropological and historical circles, few researchers have provided the observational detail that informs this book. By assessing the elaborate irrigation efforts of prehispanic societies in this region of the Peruvian Andes and contrasting them with subsequent hacienda systems as well as recent agrarian reforms, we are introduced to the fundamental organizational underpinnings acting on the landscape. Bunker shows how local places are linked by the movement of water and how cosmology and environment become codependent, though biophysical principles remain the ultimate arbiter in this topographically severe setting. Socially imbued place codifies myth, ritual, and belief. The author reveals how we all write own histories on a landscape, and how these culturally inscribed histories reconfigure aspects of the natural world. How we organize ourselves within our built environments and what technologies we chose to implement provide lessons for the future and will affect our longevity on this planet.

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