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Concepts in the Anthropological Study of Irrigation
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Size and the Structure of Authority in Canal Irrigation Systems
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a systematic comparative study of irrigation systems without constituted authority and large irrigation systems with authority structures, and they find no relationship between size and the structure of authority in systems ranging from 700 to 458,000 ha.
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A water storage adaptation in the maya lowlands.
TL;DR: Reexamination of site maps of the ancient Maya city of Tikal, Guatemala, has revealed an important, overlooked factor in Maya centralization and urban settlement organization: large, well-planned reservoirs provided resource control as well as political leverage.
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The moral economy of water: Equity and antiquity in the Andean commons
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on irrigation and water use in a community in the Peruvian Andes, one of numerous villages in the region where these activities are carried out in an unusual way, and identify and evaluate the practices and principles that make up this tradition, defining the rights and duties of community members in making use of the resource most vital for life.
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Appropriate Social Organization? Water User Associations in Bureaucratic Canal Irrigation Systems
TL;DR: A point-by-point comparison of WUAs with Irrigation Communities shows that they share only a few features, and importantly, do not share the major ones, which are access to specific benefits, the systematic relationship among the various kinds of work, a clear charter for the authority of the leaders, and articulated responsibility from farmer to headgate for allocation of water.
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Plausible Ethnographic Analogies for the Social Organization of Hohokam Canal Irrigation
Robert C. Hunt,David Guillet,David R. Abbott,James M. Bayman,Paul R. Fish,Suzanne K. Fish,Keith W. Kintigh,James A. Neely +7 more
TL;DR: In this article, the results of a comparison of archaeological findings on Hohokam irrigation and ethnographic research on the social organization of irrigation are presented. But, there are no ethnographic or historic records pertaining to the Hohoham, so the comparative ethnographic approach is perhaps more productive than in other situations.
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On Causes and Consequences of Ancient and Modern Population Changes
Abstract: Population growth is not an automatic tendency of either ancient or contemporary agrarian societies. It is not an autonomous “prime mover” which accounts for developmental episodes. Even when population problems occur it is wrong to assume that they will generally stimulate developmental innovations. Development is more apt to be stimulated by more effective demand and perceptions of new possibilities. Stresses due to shortages may actually reduce effective demand and inhibit development. Better approaches for understanding development are suggested.
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... and the Desert Shall Rejoice: Conflict, Growth, and Justice in Arid Environments
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... and the Desert Shall Rejoice: Conflict, Growth, and Justice in Arid Environments
Arthur Maass,Raymond L. Anderson +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine irrigation communities in southeastern Spain and in the western United States and delineate all these settlements in a comparative framework in terms of how they approach such goals as successful conflict resolution, popular participation, local control, economic growth, justice in income distribution and equity.
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The wet and the dry: Traditional irrigation in Bali and Morocco
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compare traditional irrigation systems in two quite disparate settings: east central Morocco and southeastern Bali, and demonstrate that patterns of adaptation are susceptible to the same pattern of analysis as other aspects of social and cultural life.