| Book Review | Environmental History, 9.3

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| Book Review | Environmental History, 9.3 | The History Cooperative

Book Review

Lines in the Water: Nature and Culture at Lake Titicaca. By Ben Orlove. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. xxvii + 287 pp. Illustrations, photographs, maps, chapter notes, index. $50.00.

Lines in the Water is a sensitively written anthropological approach to the culture and environment of indigenous, peasant fishermen of Lake Titicaca. Orlove's thoughtful discussions cover over two decades of research on the people and the extraordinary setting of Lake Titicaca, primarily on the Peruvian margins of this highland lacustrean resource shared by both Peru and Bolivia. Poverty and the exigencies of daily subsistence and generational survival are present throughout the book. Orlove's unifying theme upholds the resiliency of local, customary institutions of control over the fisheries, the cohesiveness of local communities—notwithstanding internal class and ethnic divisions—and the adaptive ingenuity of these fishing communities in their approaches to technology and markets. The book is well illustrated with instructive maps and photographs that are memorable for both their aesthetic qualities and their cultural content.

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