Monday, November 19
6:30-7:45 p.m. in OB 230 (Oswald Auditorium)
Presenter: Kary Stackelbeck
Title: Ancient Practices and Modern Importance: Lessons in Water from the Andean Past
Kary Stackelbeck, an Anthropologist, will focus her presentation on the long-term trends in the use, control, manipulation, and implications of water (and water shortages) from an Andean perspective. The talk will draw on recent research that identified irrigation canals in northern Peru (dating to 5400 years ago, and perhaps earlier) as the earliest in the New World, the continued development of irrigation technology among pre-hispanic populations, how water was manipulated for ritual and subsistence purposes and managed communally, and how people reacted to water shortages in the past. She will include a brief discussion of the impacts and implications of privatization of water among Andean communities and lessons we might learn from past and present cases of water management in the Andes.
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