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Chapitre d'ouvrage Année : 1991

Du rythme naturel au rythme humain : vie et mort d'une technique traditionnelle, le qanāt

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In assuring, theoretically, a continuous supply of water without any human energy other than that engaged for its construction, the qanāt is traditionally presented as one of the rare techniques of acquisition of water which may be attained to overcome the rhythm of precipitation in arid zones. This essential attribute contributes to an explanation of its vast development in the Near and the Middle East and its socio-economic impact, often misunderstood, from antiquity up to recent periods. This remarkable technique is, however, in clear regression today, the victim doubtless of competition with more modern methods, but above all of a slow and complex process of degradation into which enter both physical and human factors. After discussion of the technical and historical bases of a system which seems to go back at least as far as the first millennium B.C., and a critical analysis of the documentation, it will be shown how, in a context of prolonged drought, the advantages of the system are progressively obliterated by the heavy constraints periodically imposed on its users (repeated interference for reasons of maintenance, shifting or lowering of irrigated zones). These new rhythms of behavior, today more and more mismanaged by communities of users who are in profound economic and social change, has in recent years accelerated the inevitable disappearance of the qanāt
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Pierre Lombard. Du rythme naturel au rythme humain : vie et mort d'une technique traditionnelle, le qanāt . Marie-Claire Cauvin. Rites et Rythmes agraires, 20, GDR - Maison de l'Orient, pp.70-86, 1991, Travaux de la Maison de l'Orient, 978-2-903264-49-9. ⟨halshs-01850938⟩
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