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Article: Acequia: Water Sharing, Sanctity, and Place.(Book review)
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- Southwestern American Literature
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- September 22, 2007
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Acequia: Water Sharing, Sanctity, and Place by Sylvia Rodriguez. Santa Fe: School for Advanced Research Press, 2007. 187 pp. $27.95 paperback.
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For over three centuries, autonomous irrigation ditches known as acequias have distributed diverted river water to par ciantes (members of the acequia community) as a means of supporting small-scale family farming and agriculture. At least 1,000 acequias remain in the Rio Grande Valley of New Mexico and have played a major role in shaping the cultural and geographical landscape of the American Southwest.
Acequia: Water Sharing, Sanctity, and Place by anthropologist Sylvia ...