Snake With Golden Braids - Society, Nature, and Technology in Andean Irrigation

Informationen zum Autor Stephen G. Bunker is professor of sociology at University of Wisconsin, Madison. Klappentext 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. 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

• Authors: Stephen G Bunker, Stephen G. Bunker, Bunker Stephen G.
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.04.2006
• EAN: 9780739111970
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-1197-0
• No. of pages: 136
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); NON-CLASSIFIABLE, NATURE / Natural Resources, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Society & culture: general, Environmental Management, Society and culture: general, Stationery and miscellaneous items, Miscellaneous items