David Guillet
Biographic Data
| ID | 119179 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Guillet |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Guillet |
| SIGNATURE | GUILLET D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Catholic University of America |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 135 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Rethinking Irrigation Efficiency: Chain Irrigation in Northwestern Spain
Customary Law and the Nationalist Project in Spain and Peru
The nationalist projects of the Latin American countries in the nineteenth century are only recently beginning to receive the attention they deserve. Andeanist ethnologists find this attention compelling. Many have perceived their mission as the search for parallels between contemporary villages and towns and pre-Hispanic cultural principles and social institutions, documented by ethno-historians such as Tom Zuidema and John Murra. This search fo…
Plausible Ethnographic Analogies for the Social Organization of Hohokam Canal Irrigation
This paper presents the results of a juxtaposition of archaeological findings on Hohokam irrigation and ethnographic research on the social organization of irrigation. There are no ethnographic or historic records pertaining to the Hohokam, so the comparative ethnographic approach is perhaps more productive than in other situations. Several forms of canal irrigation organization are considered, including politically centralized, acephalous, priva…
Co-Management of Natural Resources: The Long View from Northwestern Spain
Stakeholder co-management, a relatively new approach to environmental management, has come under criticism in recent years. The ethnographic and ethnohistorical record of co-management offers a rich body of experiences in responding to these criticisms. To illustrate, the history of local resource management of forests, water, land, and pastures in the upper Duero basin of Spain from the Reconquest to the liberal administrative reforms of the nin…
Culture and Agriculture Section: C&A Business at Chicago Meeting
Reconsidering Institutional Change: Property Rights in Northern Spain
For about fifty years, from the turn of the twentieth century until the 1950s, farmers in the region of the Orbigo River in northwestern Spain lifted groundwater for irrigation. Two quite different forms of property rights emerged during this period. In the Orbigo valley, small groups of farmers held the majority of water-lifting devices and groundwater as common property. Water was divided into timeshares and shares were taken in rotation. On a …
A New Era for Irrigation
A New Era for IrrigationNational Research Council. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 1996
Rethinking Legal Pluralism: Local Law and State Law in the Evolution of Water Property Rights in Northwestern Spain
In recent years, approaches to legal pluralism have shifted dramatically. One shift comes from within a school of fieldwork-oriented anthropologists, historians, and sociologists known as the law-and-society movement.The Law and Society Review, and to a lesser extent, Law and Social Inquiry, are the main outlets of the movement. Studies of legal pluralism are published in these journals and increasingly so, since its founding in 1981, in the Jour…
Water‐Demand Management and Farmer‐Managed Irrigation Systems
The Politics of Sustainable Agriculture: The Case of Water-Demand Management in Spain
Spain is currently engaged in a debate over the demand management of water: the recognition of the value of water in relation to its provision cost and the introduction of policies to require consumers to adjust their usage more closely to those costs. While this debate was triggered by the 1985 Water Law, measures to manage demand were included over 100 years earlier, in the 1879 Water Law. The response in both cases to attempts to implement dem…
Ground Water Irrigation and Property Rights in Northwestern Spain
Author-Title Index
Change in Latin America' (V
Societes Rurales des Andes et de l'Himalaya
The Question of the Commons: The Culture and Ecology of Communal Resources. Bonnie M. MCCAY and James M. Acheson, eds
Linguistic Anthropology: State, Capital, and Rural Society: Anthropological Perspectives on Political Economy in Mexico and the Andes. Benjamin S. Orlove, Michael W. Foley , and Thomas F. Love , eds
A Knowledge-Based-Systems Model of Native Soil Management
This paper describes the use of a knowledge-based-system to model aspects of native soil management in a Peruvian highland village. Itfocuses on the steps taken in the construction of the model: the formulation ofprototypes, the development of a knowledge vocabulary, building the knowledge base, and validation. The paper concludes with a discussion of the relative merits of knowledge-based-systems as compared with other representations of decisio…
Terracing and Irrigation in the Peruvian Highlands [and Comments and Reply]
Toward a Cultural Ecology of Mountains: The Central Andes and the Himalaya Compared
The comparative study of mountain populations has become a major focus of attention in the last decade (Sacherer, 1973; Rhoades and Thompson, 1975; Brush, 1976; Pawson andJest, 1978; Thomas, 1979; Novoa and Posner, 1981; L'homme et son environnement, 1982). Researchers steeped in the ethnology of a mountain area have begun to discover intriguing similarities in the cultural patterns of other mountain areas, and these discoveries have led to a sea…
Toward a Cultural Ecology of Mountains: [The Central Andes and the Himalaya Compared]: Reply
Barter and Cash Sale on Lake Titicaca: A Test of Competing Approaches [and Comments and Replies]
A review of recent work in economic anthropology finds three competing approaches: decision theory, culturalism, and neo-Marxism. These approaches are tested with data on four dimensions of the cash sale and barter of fish on Lake Titicaca, Peru. The first is somewhat more successful, although the others also explain some data. Comparisons are drawn with barter and cash sale elsewhere in the Andes
Small-Scale Agro-Pastoral Production in the Central Andes
Small-scale agro-pastoral production in the Central Andes is oriented toward guaranteeing a subsistence livelihood by efforts to attain self-sufficiency in food production and to reduce environmental risks. Production strategies involve the simultaneous use of several ecological zones each with characteristic crops or types of pasture. Households are the basic units of production which allocate land, labour, and capital at their disposal to meet …
Theoretical and Methodological Considerations on the Study of Mountain Peoples: Reflections on the Idea of Subsistence Type and the Role of History in Human Ecology
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Microcomputers in Fieldwork and the Role of the Anthropologist
On a Cultural Ecology of Mountains: Reply to Malengreu and Messerschmidt
Toward a Cultural Ecology of Mountains: The Central Andes and the Himalayas Compared [and Comments and Reply]
A model of the cultural ecology of tropical high mountains based on a comparison of the Central Andes and the Himalayas is presented. It is argued that mountain adaptations have three basic elements: (1) an array of vertical production zones, each characterized by a complex interaction of variables including agricultural regime, social organization, stratification, land tenure, labor organization, and level of productivity; (2) choice by the popu…
Terracing and Irrigation in the Peruvian Highlands [and Comments and Reply]
Land tenure, ecological zone, and agricultural regime in the Central Andes
Using a sample of community studies, the interrelationships between land tenure, agricultural regime, and ecological zone in the Central Andes are explored. Communal control is found to be associated with grazing and sectorial fallowing, while private control is found to be associated with permanent irrigation, specialized horticulture, and long-term fallowing. These patterns are shown to be produced by population pressure and market relations in…
Plausible Ethnographic Analogies for the Social Organization of Hohokam Canal Irrigation
This paper presents the results of a juxtaposition of archaeological findings on Hohokam irrigation and ethnographic research on the social organization of irrigation. There are no ethnographic or historic records pertaining to the Hohokam, so the comparative ethnographic approach is perhaps more productive than in other situations. Several forms of canal irrigation organization are considered, including politically centralized, acephalous, priva…
Reciprocal Labor and Peripheral Capitalism in the Central Andes
Toward a Cultural Ecology of Mountains: The Central Andes and the Himalayas Compared [and Comments and Reply]
A model of the cultural ecology of tropical high mountains based on a comparison of the Central Andes and the Himalayas is presented. It is argued that mountain adaptations have three basic elements: (1) an array of vertical production zones, each characterized by a complex interaction of variables including agricultural regime, social organization, stratification, land tenure, labor organization, and level of productivity; (2) choice by the popu…
Barter and Cash Sale on Lake Titicaca: A Test of Competing Approaches [and Comments and Replies]
A review of recent work in economic anthropology finds three competing approaches: decision theory, culturalism, and neo-Marxism. These approaches are tested with data on four dimensions of the cash sale and barter of fish on Lake Titicaca, Peru. The first is somewhat more successful, although the others also explain some data. Comparisons are drawn with barter and cash sale elsewhere in the Andes
Rethinking Legal Pluralism: Local Law and State Law in the Evolution of Water Property Rights in Northwestern Spain
In recent years, approaches to legal pluralism have shifted dramatically. One shift comes from within a school of fieldwork-oriented anthropologists, historians, and sociologists known as the law-and-society movement.The Law and Society Review, and to a lesser extent, Law and Social Inquiry, are the main outlets of the movement. Studies of legal pluralism are published in these journals and increasingly so, since its founding in 1981, in the Jour…
Reconsidering Institutional Change: Property Rights in Northern Spain
For about fifty years, from the turn of the twentieth century until the 1950s, farmers in the region of the Orbigo River in northwestern Spain lifted groundwater for irrigation. Two quite different forms of property rights emerged during this period. In the Orbigo valley, small groups of farmers held the majority of water-lifting devices and groundwater as common property. Water was divided into timeshares and shares were taken in rotation. On a …
A Knowledge-Based-Systems Model of Native Soil Management
This paper describes the use of a knowledge-based-system to model aspects of native soil management in a Peruvian highland village. Itfocuses on the steps taken in the construction of the model: the formulation ofprototypes, the development of a knowledge vocabulary, building the knowledge base, and validation. The paper concludes with a discussion of the relative merits of knowledge-based-systems as compared with other representations of decisio…
Co-Management of Natural Resources: The Long View from Northwestern Spain
Stakeholder co-management, a relatively new approach to environmental management, has come under criticism in recent years. The ethnographic and ethnohistorical record of co-management offers a rich body of experiences in responding to these criticisms. To illustrate, the history of local resource management of forests, water, land, and pastures in the upper Duero basin of Spain from the Reconquest to the liberal administrative reforms of the nin…
The Politics of Sustainable Agriculture: The Case of Water-Demand Management in Spain
Spain is currently engaged in a debate over the demand management of water: the recognition of the value of water in relation to its provision cost and the introduction of policies to require consumers to adjust their usage more closely to those costs. While this debate was triggered by the 1985 Water Law, measures to manage demand were included over 100 years earlier, in the 1879 Water Law. The response in both cases to attempts to implement dem…
Rethinking Irrigation Efficiency: Chain Irrigation in Northwestern Spain
Author-Title Index
Change in Latin America' (V
Peasant Economy and Politics in Latin America
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Transformación Ritual y cambio socio-político. En una comunidad campesina andina
El sistema general de fiestas es uno de los mecanismos de integración más eficaces en la vida rural de los Andes (Martínez 1959, Mangin 1961). El término "sistema de fiestas" cubre una gran diversidad de actividades rituales incluyendo factores no religiosos de socialización, danzas y el intercambio ritual de comidas y bebidas, además de elementos religiosos tomados de las prácticas católicas, como la celebración de la misa, la procesión y alguno…
Migration, Agrarian Reform, and Structural Change in Rural Peru
This paper explores the relationship between agrarian reform, migration, and structural change. Data come from fieldwork in 1971--72 in a Quechua-speaking peasant community in southern Peru. An increase in the rate of return of migrants is related to a clause in the 1969 agrarian reform law prohibiting indirect usufruct. Upon return to the community, migrants have been active in the ritual and political spheres. Migrant behavior is analyzed in te…
New Approaches to the Study of Migration
Agrarian Reform and Peasant Economy in Southern Peru
Reciprocal Labor and Peripheral Capitalism in the Central Andes
Surplus extraction, risk management and economic change among Peruvian Peasants
Analytical approaches to economic change among peasants are marked by a dichotomy between orthodox decision‐making and Marxian surplus appropriation. These approaches are combined in this paper in an examination of the response of Peruvian peasants to new economic opportunities. First, the mechanics of surplus appropriation and the economic logic of peasant households are addressed. The discussion then turns to the nature of risk and uncertainty …
Agrarian Ecology and Peasant Production in the Central Andes
An integrated, production-focused, model of the Central Andean peasant economy is suggested, based on the interac- tion of many factors: geoecology, vertical gradients of land tenure, agricultural regime, and labour use, and the household/supra- household spheres of production. Two sets of characteristic social relations are found. The first is a personal social network built up by the household which can be activated to obtain land, labour, and …
Land tenure, ecological zone, and agricultural regime in the Central Andes
Using a sample of community studies, the interrelationships between land tenure, agricultural regime, and ecological zone in the Central Andes are explored. Communal control is found to be associated with grazing and sectorial fallowing, while private control is found to be associated with permanent irrigation, specialized horticulture, and long-term fallowing. These patterns are shown to be produced by population pressure and market relations in…
Cultural/Applied: Peasants, Primitives, and Proletariats: The Struggle for Identity in South America. David L. Broioman and Ronald A. Schwartz
Economía agraria de la sierra peruana antes de la reforma agraria de 1969
Toward a Cultural Ecology of Mountains: The Central Andes and the Himalayas Compared [and Comments and Reply]
A model of the cultural ecology of tropical high mountains based on a comparison of the Central Andes and the Himalayas is presented. It is argued that mountain adaptations have three basic elements: (1) an array of vertical production zones, each characterized by a complex interaction of variables including agricultural regime, social organization, stratification, land tenure, labor organization, and level of productivity; (2) choice by the popu…
The Individual and The Collectivity in Andean Studies
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On a Cultural Ecology of Mountains: Reply to Malengreu and Messerschmidt
Small-Scale Agro-Pastoral Production in the Central Andes
Small-scale agro-pastoral production in the Central Andes is oriented toward guaranteeing a subsistence livelihood by efforts to attain self-sufficiency in food production and to reduce environmental risks. Production strategies involve the simultaneous use of several ecological zones each with characteristic crops or types of pasture. Households are the basic units of production which allocate land, labour, and capital at their disposal to meet …
Theoretical and Methodological Considerations on the Study of Mountain Peoples: Reflections on the Idea of Subsistence Type and the Role of History in Human Ecology
?:~.~:~: ? ...... .......: ??:: ??:' ~?: ?.. ??-- ??..?
Microcomputers in Fieldwork and the Role of the Anthropologist
Toward a Cultural Ecology of Mountains: The Central Andes and the Himalaya Compared
The comparative study of mountain populations has become a major focus of attention in the last decade (Sacherer, 1973; Rhoades and Thompson, 1975; Brush, 1976; Pawson andJest, 1978; Thomas, 1979; Novoa and Posner, 1981; L'homme et son environnement, 1982). Researchers steeped in the ethnology of a mountain area have begun to discover intriguing similarities in the cultural patterns of other mountain areas, and these discoveries have led to a sea…
Toward a Cultural Ecology of Mountains: [The Central Andes and the Himalaya Compared]: Reply
Barter and Cash Sale on Lake Titicaca: A Test of Competing Approaches [and Comments and Replies]
A review of recent work in economic anthropology finds three competing approaches: decision theory, culturalism, and neo-Marxism. These approaches are tested with data on four dimensions of the cash sale and barter of fish on Lake Titicaca, Peru. The first is somewhat more successful, although the others also explain some data. Comparisons are drawn with barter and cash sale elsewhere in the Andes
Terracing and Irrigation in the Peruvian Highlands [and Comments and Reply]
A Knowledge-Based-Systems Model of Native Soil Management
This paper describes the use of a knowledge-based-system to model aspects of native soil management in a Peruvian highland village. Itfocuses on the steps taken in the construction of the model: the formulation ofprototypes, the development of a knowledge vocabulary, building the knowledge base, and validation. The paper concludes with a discussion of the relative merits of knowledge-based-systems as compared with other representations of decisio…
The Question of the Commons: The Culture and Ecology of Communal Resources. Bonnie M. MCCAY and James M. Acheson, eds
Linguistic Anthropology: State, Capital, and Rural Society: Anthropological Perspectives on Political Economy in Mexico and the Andes. Benjamin S. Orlove, Michael W. Foley , and Thomas F. Love , eds
Societes Rurales des Andes et de l'Himalaya
Geography (22 works) · Political science (18 works) · Economics (11 works) · Law (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Biology (9 works) · Ecology (9 works) · Agriculture (8 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Archaeology (7 works)