Environmental Anthropology of the Qanat System in Iran (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783659671500)

Qanat is an ancient Iranian groundwater supply system which has diffused to numerous areas outside of Iran as well. In addition to its eco-friendly techno-physical structure, the Qanat system includes many socio-institutional and ritual dimensions such as Boneh and Qanat marriage rites. The present research reviews the current literature on the Qanat system to investigate the impacts of technical, socio-institutional, and intellectual/ritual aspects of the Qanat system on water resources. This traditional system has been replaced with inefficient technologies and rural institutions through a countrywide change during the 1960s. By including the process of water management modernisation in Iran, a comparative assessment of Qanat and its modern alternatives will become part of this study too. In this way, my research can indicate while the integrated sociocultural and technological system of Qanat sustainably provided water for millennia, contemporary water management systems have been demonstrated to be unsustainable.I draw on a conceptual framework which derives from ecological anthropology and Traditional Ecological Knowledge studies.

Author: Habashiani Rasoul
ISBN-10: 3659671509
ISBN-13: 9783659671500
Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
Language: English
Published: 01/06/2015
Pages: 168
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.56lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.39d