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Irrigation ditches are the lifelines of agriculture and daily life in rural New Mexico. This award-winning account of the authors experience as a mayordomo, or ditch boss, is the first record of the life of an acequia by a community participant.
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Mayordomo : Chronicle of an Acequia in Northern New Mexico
author
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Crawford, Stanley G.
publisher
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University of New Mexico
isbn10 | asin
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0826314457
print isbn13
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9780826314451
ebook isbn13
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9780585273815
language
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English
subject
Irrigation water--New Mexico--Management, Irrigation canals and flumes--New Mexico--Maintenance and repair, Water--New Mexico--Distribution--Management, New Mexico--Social conditions.
publication date
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1993
lcc
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TC824.N6C73 1993eb
ddc
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333.91/3/09789
subject
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Irrigation water--New Mexico--Management, Irrigation canals and flumes--New Mexico--Maintenance and repair, Water--New Mexico--Distribution--Management, New Mexico--Social conditions.
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Mayordomo
Chronicle of an Acequia in Northern New Mexico
Stanley Crawford
UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRESS Albuquerque
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Crawford, Stanley G., 1937 Mayordomo: Chronicle of an acequia in northern New Mexico / Stanley Crawford. 1st ed. p.cm. Bibliography: p. ISBN 0-8263-1445-7 1. Irrigation WaterNew MexicoManagement. 2. Irrigation canals and flumes New Mexico Maintenance and repair. 3. WaterNew Mexico DistributionManagement. I. Title. TC824.N6C73 1988 333.91'3'099789dc19 97-24487 CIP
1988 by Stanley Crawford. All rights reserved. Second University of New Mexico Press paperback printing, 1998
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For My Mother and Father and in Memory of Alister Brass
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So the river is a god Knee-deep among reeds, watching me Or hung by the heels down the door of a dam It is a god, and inviolable. Immortal. And will wash itself of all deaths. Ted Hughes, from River
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Contents
Preface: Words and Names
xi
Chapter One
1
Chapter Two
31
Chapter Three
53
Chapter Four
79
Chapter Five
101
Chapter Six
121
Chapter Seven
141
Chapter Eight
171
Chapter Nine
179
Chapter Ten
187
Chapter Eleven
215
For Further Reading
231
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Preface: Words and Names
One cannot speak or write about the community irrigation ditches of New Mexico without using the Spanish terminology of their physical and organizational structure, if one is to do justice to them. The Spanish vocabulary that inhabits the following account roughly corresponds to that which I normally use in my dealings with my own ditch and would be common to others who are actively part of a ditch association in northern New Mexico, whether their first language is Spanish or English.
The term acequia, which can refer to both the actual irrigation channel and to the association of members organized around it, derives from the Arabic as-saquiya. Each acequia is individually governed by a comisin of three landowner parciantes, or member-shareholders. Parciantes are assessed in work or money and obtain water from
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the acequia according to the size of their plots of land in terms of piones, from pin, worker, also meaning by extension "share," a local variant on the more standard pen. Usually elected by the parciantes along with the comisin, the mayordomo is the ditch manager and is usually paid a monthly salary during the irrigation season. The approximately one thousand acequias of New Mexico vary in size from several parciantes to over one hundred.
The following account covers a year in the life of a small acequia in northern New Mexico, from March 1985 to March 1986. In it, I have changed all local place and personal names in order to protect the privacy of the community, which should not be interpreted as sign of ingratitude toward my fellow parciantes, commissioners, mayordomos who have confided to me, admonished me, and guided me over the past nineteen years.
This book would not have been written without the unflagging encouragement of Gus Blaisdell. Also, I owe thanks to Elizabeth C. Hadas of the University of New Mexico Press for her patience and understanding, and to Clark de Schweinitz of Northern New Mexico Legal Services for helping me clarify numerous points of water use and water law over many years; and to Rose Mary Crawford, always my foremost reader, companion parciante through it all: words, water, mud, and sky.
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