Où vivre sans boire revisited
Water and political-economic change among Mikea hunter-gatherers of southwestern Madagascar
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2048976 |
|---|---|
| Authors | B Tucker (0000-0002-4620-9737, University of Georgia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 22-37 |
| Publication date | 2020-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Economic Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2330-4847 • E-ISSN: 2330-4847 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/sea2.12160 |
| OpenAlex | W2971169331 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 25 |
In this article, I present a political-ecological history of the Mikea Forest of southwestern Madagascar, and of the Mikea people, anchored in four water-themed moments: 1966, with the publication of one of the first ethnographic descriptions of Mikea, Où vivre sans boire, "where they live without drinking"; 1998, when Mikea combined foraging with swidden maize agriculture and traveled long distances to get their water; 2003, when a Joint Commission of organizations, working to halt deforestation, considered plans for canals to irrigate potential farmland; and 2018, when Mikea living on the edge of a new national park desperately waited for rain. I offer "hydrosocial moments" as a way to extend Boelens and colleagues' "hydrosocial territories" through time. Water facts and truths change through a dialectical process of truth assertion and contradiction. In the Mikea case, one changing truth was who Mikea are: exotic desert hunter-gatherers, victimized indigenous peoples losing forest to rapacious farmers, or poor people in need of development. Interveners borrowed truths from neighboring hydrosocial territories. The concepts of hydrosocial territories and moments are significant because they have real effects, in this case, poverty
Archaeology · Ethnography · Geography · Indigenous · Political ecology · Political science · Politics · Poverty · African Studies and Ethnography · French Urban and Social Studies · Law · Water Governance and Infrastructure · Ecology
Early kingdoms in Madagascar, 1500-1700
Evolution in the hypervariable environment of Madagascar
Past and Present in Hunter Gatherer Studies
On the measurement of inequality
Present Migration Tendencies and Their Impacts in Madagascar's Spiny Forest Ecoregion
Deforestation, Erosion, and Fire
Riziculture and the founding of monarchy in Imerina
The hydrosocial cycle
Ways of Seeing Africa
Paradigmatic History of San-Speaking Peoples and Current Attempts at Revision [and Comments and Replies]
The Transition Between Hunting and Gathering and the Specialized Husbandry of Resources
Foragers, Genuine or Spurious
Hydrosocial territories
Measuring Poverty
Lost in translation
Chinese Society
Mystification of the Mikea
Les economies paysannes malgaches du Bas-Mangoky
Constructing Mikea Identity
Images of denigration
Turning Modes of Production Inside Out
When the Wealthy Are Poor
The economic anthropology of water
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |