Department of Anthropology

David Guillet

Dr. David Guillet (PhD, University of Texas, 1974) Ordinary Professor Office: 7 Marist Phone: 202-319-5080 Email: guillet[at]cua.edu

David Guillet is a social anthropologist with specialties in economic and ecological anthropology, natural resource management and irrigation. He has conducted research in Peru, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Spain and India. He is the author of Covering Ground: Communal Water Management and the State in the Peruvian Highlands (1992), Irrigation at High Altitude: Social Organization of Water Control in the Andes, with W. Mitchell (1995).

He has served on the Operations Committee of the American Anthropological Association and as President of the Culture and Agriculture section. He has held Research Associate positions with the Interamerican Institute of Agricultural Sciences of the Organization of American States and with San Antonio Abad University in Cusco, Peru; Delhi University; and the University of Leon in Leon, Spain. He has consulted with the World Bank, the National Science Foundation and the Agency for International Development and lectured at universities here and abroad.

His publications include books (Covering Ground, 1992; Irrigation at High Altitude with W. Mitchell, 1995; Agrarian Reform and Peasant Economy in Southern Peru, 1979) and articles in journals such as the American Anthropologist, Current Anthropology, Comparative Studies in Society and History, Hispanic American Historical Review, American Ethnologist and Ethnology.

Some of his recent publications:

"Irrigation" International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, edited by William A. Darity, Jr. (2008)

"Rethinking Irrigation Efficiency: Chain Irrigation in Northwestern Spain" Human Ecology (2006)

"Ethnographic Models and Ancient Water Systems: Hohokam Irrigation" with Robert C. Hunt, David Abbott, James Bayman, Paul Fish, Suzanne Fish, Keith Kintigh, James Neely. American Antiquity (2006)

"Boundary Practice and Historical Consciousness in Spain and Peru" in Kay Pacha: Materialisations of Earth, Land, and Water in the Andes  (2006)

Dr. Guillet's Books