William P. Mitchell

Canal Irrigation and Local Social Organization [and Comments and Reply]

Theory linking labor inputs of irrigation agriculture to social organization is briefly reviewed. Labor input is distinguished into five tasks: construction, maintenance, allocation, conflict resolution, and organization of ritual. A sample of world communities is canvassed in search of structural variation. A rationale for studying these phenomena in a local, rather than a society-wide, context is presented. Types of ties of the locality with the larger system are explored. Several propositions about pervasive external linkages with local phenomena are presented. Millons results, showing no relationship between size of irrigation system and centralization, are challenged. It is found that often irrigation management roles are embedded in other socially powerful roles rather than forming part of a specialized bureaucracy. Conditions for role embeddedness are explored.

The Hydraulic Hypothesis: A Reappraisal'

PHILLIPSON, D. W. 1968. The early Iron Age site at Kapwirimbwe, Lusaka. Azania 3:87-106. VOGEL, J. 0. 1969. On early evidence of agriculture in southern Zambia. CURRENT ANTHROPOLOGY 10:524. . 1970. Early Iron Age tools from Chundu Farm, Zambia. Azania 5:173-78. . 1971. Kumadzulo: An Early Iron Age village site in southern Zambia. Lusaka: Oxford University Press. . 1972. On Early Iron Age funerary practise in southern Zambia. CURRENT ANTHROPOLOGY 13:583-86. . n.d. Simbusenga: The archaeology of the Intermediate Period in southern Zambia. Lusaka: Oxford University Press. In press.

Terracing and Irrigation in the Peruvian Highlands [and Comments and Reply]

Agricultural terraces in the Colca Valley of southem Peru facilitate the irrigation necessary for agriculture in this semiarid environment. Terrace expansion and contraction, in tum, are closely related to the availability of water. In the short term, households abandon terraces because of constraints in the system of water distribution. In the longer term, periodic droughts trigger water conservation practices which curtail expansion and lead to terrace abandonment. During periods of relative water abundance, constraints are relaxed, allowing new terraces to be constructed and abandoned ones rebuilt. Cyclical pattems of terrace contraction and expansion suggest that repeated observations of land use over time are necessary for an understanding of agricultural intensification and deintensification in the Central Andes.

Peasants on the Edge: Crop, Cult, and Crisis in the Andes

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Symbols and structuralism in the andes: A case of theory obscuring the facts

Billie Jean Isbell. To Defend Ourselves: Ecology and Ritual in an Andean Village. Institute of Latin American Studies, Latin American Monographs No. 47. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1978. xv + 298 pp.