TY  - BOOK
AU  - Andersen,Astrid Oberborbeck
AU  - Dowd-Uribe,Brian
AU  - Hastrup,Frida
AU  - Hastrup,Kirsten
AU  - Irvine,Richard D.G.
AU  - Olwig,Mette Fog
AU  - Orlove,Ben
AU  - Rasmussen,Laura Vang
AU  - Rasmussen,Mattias Borg
AU  - Reenberg,Anette
AU  - Robertson,Maria Louise Bønnelykke
AU  - Roncoli,Carla
AU  - Rubow,Cecilie
AU  - Stensrud,Astrid B.
AU  - Strang,Veronica
AU  - Vium,Christian
TI  - Waterworlds: Anthropology in Fluid Environments 
T2  - Ethnography, Theory, Experiment
SN  - 9781782389460
AV  - GB665 .W36 2015
U1  - 333.91 23
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - New York, Oxford
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - Human ecology
KW  - Water and civilization
KW  - Water use
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Water
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Anthropology (General), Environmental Studies (General)
N1  - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS --; PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS --; Introduction: Waterworlds At Large --; 1 East Anglian Fenland: Water, the Work of Imagination, and the Creation of Value --; 2 Fluid Entitlements: Constructing and Contesting Water Allocations in Burkina Faso, West Africa --; 3 Raining in the Andes: Disrupted Seasonal and Hydrological Cycles --; 4 Respect and Passion in a Lagoon in the South Pacific --; 5 West African Waterworlds: Narratives of Absence versus Narratives of Excess --; 6 To the Lighthouse: Making a Liveable World by the Bay of Bengal --; 7 Enacting Groundwaters in Tarawa, Kiribati: Searching for Facts and Articulating Concerns --; 8 Mapping Urban Waters: Grounds and Figures on an Ethnographic Water Path --; 9 Water Literacy in the Sahel: Understanding Rain and Groundwater --; 10 Deep Time and Shallow Waters: Configurations of an Irrigation Channel in the Andes --; 11 Moral Valves and Fluid Properties: Water Regulation Mechanisms in the Bâdia of South-Eastern Mauritania --; 12 Reflecting Nature: Water Beings in History and Imagination --; 13 The North Water: Life on the Ice Edge in the High Arctic --; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS --; INDEX; restricted access
N2  - In one form or another, water participates in the making and unmaking of people’s lives, practices, and stories. Contributors’ detailed ethnographic work analyzes the union and mutual shaping of water and social lives. This volume discusses current ecological disturbances and engages in a world where unbounded relationalities and unsettled frames of orientation mark the lives of all, anthropologists included. Water emerges as a fluid object in more senses than one, challenging anthropologists to foreground the mutable character of their objects of study and to responsibly engage with the generative role of cultural analysis
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781782389477
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781782389477
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781782389477/original
ER  -