The Struggle for Water in Peru: Comedy and Tragedy in the Andean Commons 9780804778992

This ecological history of peasant society in the Peruvian Andes focuses on the politics of irrigation and water managem

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English Pages 368 Year 2002

The Struggle for Water in Peru: Comedy and Tragedy in the Andean Commons
9780804778992

Andean Meltdown examines how climate change and its consequences for Peru's glaciers are affecting the country'

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A massive land-seizure movement first erupted in Peru in 1958 and spread across the Andean highlands in 1963–1964. Sever

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The Italian statesman and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli, well known as the author of The Prince, wrote not onl

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The role of the religious specialist in Andean cultures of the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries was a co

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The role of the religious specialist in Andean cultures of the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries was a co

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The role of the religious specialist in Andean cultures of the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries was a co

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Analyzes the practice of informal adoption and child circulation between communities in Peru, showing how these historic

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Mining investment in Peru has been presented as necessary for national progress; however, it also has brought socioenvir

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Analyzes the practice of informal adoption and child circulation between communities in Peru, showing how these historic

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First full-length history of the Colca Valley in southern Peru from pre-Hispanic times to the present.

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