ABSTRACT
The watch and the waterclock: two different contemporary ways of measuring time, and more specifically irrigation time, in two villages situated scarcely a few hundred meters apart in a palm grove in the south of Tunisia. We will be addressing the question of what subtle social practices lie behind this deliberately conservative – at least in the case of the waterclock – choice. But we will also have the occasion to look at other techniques of measuring water shares and at their place and meaning within the social system.
