Covering Ground: Communal Water Management and the State in the Peruvian Highlands
by: Guillet, David W.

Hardcover. Ann Arbor MI, University of Michigan Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. 250 pages, b&w illustrations. The story of the inhabitants of Lari, a village in the Colca Valley of the Andes, and their struggle with three forces in their endeavor to find and use water--the drive of individuals to accumulate resources and wealth, the interest of the predatory state, and gravity. Clean copy.