Living over Water - Restorative Redevelopment of Devastated Ecocultural Landscapes - page 272

FIGURE 14.37 Traditional reed boat kept for tourists.

at work repairing fishing nets, drying fish, grinding maize, or working on crafts
(Figure 14.38). These domestic Peruvian images look remarkably like those from
earlier times in the Iraqi marshlands in Ochsenschlager (2004) and France (2007).
From inside the few huts with solar panels, one can hear the din of the typically over-
the-top Spanish soap operas, making for the most incongruous of visits. And just as
in photos from the Iraqi marshlands (e.g., Wheeler in Young 1977), visitors observe

FIGURE 14.38 Just as was the situation in the pre-drainage Iraqi marshlands, reed island
dwellers in Lake Titicaca can be observed fixing their fishing nets, drying their catch of
fishes, and bundling reeds together for construction purposes.

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