| Titre | Système hydraulique et société dans une oasis tunisienne | |
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| Auteur | Geneviève Bédoucha-Albergoni | |
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Revue | Etudes rurales |
| Numéro | no 62, 1976 | |
| Page | 39-72 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Society and Hydraulic System in a Tunisian Oasis.
This article is devoted to the study of the social and political organization of four villages whose separate communal territories form one continuous palm oasis. A single spring irrigates the oasis. The water supply is divided in halves, each half being shared by two villages belonging to the same çoff. Aspects of the hydraulic system as such are here considered to be indicative of a type of social organization. Insofar as there is no higher authority to control the use of water, the ways in which it is allotted directly reveal the nature of the social equilibrium and the relationships between the groups. A permanent bi-partition of the water flow has replaced the former system of rotation in time, and the author here considers the effects of this mutation on the oasis society. Within each community, the modalities (the diversity of which is emphasized) of measure, distribution and appropriation of the water supply may be considered as socially pertinent features. Thus the analysis of one village's water allotment system reveals the progressive decline of the lineage order. The article concludes with an analysis of power : the control of water is both its expression and its stake. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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