essay
Irrigation and moisture-sensitive periods: a Zapotec case
Irrigation's impact on society • Tucson • Published In 1974 • Pages: 113-122
By: Downing, Theodore E..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This paper discusses the system of irrigation water allocation in the municipio Díaz Ordaz. Included are information on the natural documents of water, the irrigation system, the system of water rights, and mechanisms for handling the allocation of water and for settling water rights disputes. The author argues that the system of water rights shifts during the year from one of riparian rights to one of rights of prior appropriation. He links these shifts with conflicts over water scarcity. Water scarcity, he argues, must be looked at not only in terms of gross amounts of water but also in terms of critical moisture requirements of plants at different points in their growth cycles.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Water supply
- Cereal agriculture
- Real property
- Ingroup antagonisms
- Climate
- Towns
- Legal and judicial personnel
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Zapotec
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2009
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Middle America and the Caribbean
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Central Mexico
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnographer
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Eleanor C. Swanson ; 1980: John Beierle; 2007
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1966-1970
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Town of Diaz Ordac, Vallley Zapotec, Oaxaca, Mexico
- NotesAdditional notes
- Theodore Edmond Downing
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 121-E - 122)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 74015602
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Zapotec Indians