UCSB Anthropology Brown Bag Lecture Series Presents:
WATER, ETHNICITY AND POWER: State vs. Local Models of Irrigation in Highland Peru
By
Dr. Paul Gelles
The talk centers on state versus local models for managing and
distributing irrigation water. These models embody fundamentally
different historical processes, as well as distinct and competing
cultural rationales concerning resources, power, and ethnic identity. The
analysis combines historical, interpretive, and political-economy
frameworks to understand these contested domains and the
politically charged nature of highland resource management. The
relationship between equilibrium extractive ideologies, in between
historical models in contemporary social process, is also explored.
abstract
Dr. Gelles is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at UC Riverside.
He is currently on sabbatical working on a book on the same topic
as his talk. He is also the author of a number of articles on similar
topics including "The Political Ecology of Irrigation in an Andean Peasant
Community" and "Equilibrium and Extraction: Dual Organization in the
Andes".
Wednesday March 12, 1997
HSSB 2001A, The Anthropology Conference Room
