Sarah Hines | 2026 July
Mi Casita, Tres Piedras
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Sarah Hines is an associate professor of Latin American and environmental history at the University of Oklahoma. She is the author of Water for All: Community, Property, and Revolution in Modern Bolivia (Oakland: University of California Press, 2022), published in Spanish as Agua para todos: Comunidad, propiedad, y revolución en la Bolivia moderna (La Paz, Bolivia: Plural Editores, 2024). She is currently researching and writing a new book, tentatively titled, “The Life and Death of Glaciers: A Biography of an Andean Mountain Range” on the long history of people's relationships with mountains and glaciers in the Bolivian Andes. Sarah's Lecture “The Life and Death of Glaciers: A Social and Environmental History of the Bolivian Andes" When: Tuesday, July 21st at 5:30 PM Where: SOMOS 108 Civic Plaza Drive, Taos, NM Description: Indigenous peoples in the Andes Mountains of South America have long believed that mountains, birds, lakes, and rivers are part of their communities. Snow-capped mountains are especially powerful living beings that provide water and protection for human communities, animals, and crops. Now, in the face of rising global temperatures, glaciers are receding up mountainsides. As a result, water sources that communities, towns, and cities depend on for drinking and irrigation water and hydroelectricity production are in peril. This talk is based on a book-in-progress that traces people’s relationships with mountains and glaciers in the Bolivian Andes from the beginning of human settlement to the present. It will focus the ways that Aymara Indigenous communities and other groups have experienced and responded to glacier retreat since the 1990s. |
