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Andean Economy, Technology, and Society: A Review of Recent Literature

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COVERING GROUND: COMMUNAL WATER MANAGEMENT AND THE STATE IN THE PERUVIAN HIGHLANDS. By GuilletDavid W., with introduction by HuntRobert C. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1992. Pp. 250. $39.95 cloth, $16.95 paper.)
IRRIGATION AT HIGH ALTITUDES: THE SOCIAL ORGANIZATION OF WATER CONTROL SYSTEMS IN THE ANDES. Edited by MitchellWilliam P. and GuilletDavid. Society for Latin American Anthropology Publication Series, no. 12. (Arlington, Va.: American Anthropological Association, 1994. Pp. 305. $15.00 paper.)
POVERTY AND PEASANTRY IN PERU'S SOUTHERN ANDES, 1963–90. By WattersR. F. (Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1994. Pp. 366. $75.00 cloth.)

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 October 2022

Maria A. Benavides
Maria A. Benavides*
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Centro Bartolomé de las Casas
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Latin American Research Review , Volume 31 , Issue 2 , 1996 , pp. 173 - 193
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Copyright © 1996 by the University of Texas Press

References

1. Treacy's entire dissertation was recently translated into Spanish and published in Peru by the Instituto de Estudios Peruanos. See Las chacras de Coporaque: Andenería y riego en el valle del Colca, edited by Maria A. Benavides, Blenda Femenías, and William M. Denevan (Lima: Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, 1994).

2. William Denevan, personal correspondence, 7 Feb. 1995.

3. Orin Starn, “Missing the Revolution: Anthropologists and the War in Peru,” Cultural Anthropology 6, no. 1 (Feb. 1991):63–91.

4. Anthropologist Frank Salomon shares this view, according to his personal conversation with me in Lima, Dec. 1994.

5. See, for example, “Freedom and Community: The Politics of Restoration,” The Economist, 24 Dec. 1994–6 Jan. 1995, pp. 67–70.

6. For a short list of high communitarians and some of their writings, see ibid. A well-known low communitarian in the United States is Amitai Etzioni, sociology professor at George Washington University and the author of The Spirit of Community: Rights, Responsibilities, and the Communitarian Agenda (New York: Crown Publishing Group, 1993).