ISBN:
978-1-78238-946-0
Language:
English
Pages:
IX, 308 S.
,
zahlr. Ill., Kt.
Series Statement:
Ethnography, Theory, Experiment 3
Keywords:
Wasser Wasserversorgung
;
Umwelt
;
Soziales Leben
;
Sozialer Aspekt
;
Ethnographie
;
Humanökologie
Abstract:
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.
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction. Waterworlds at large / Kirsten Hastrup and Frida Hastrup -- Chapter 1. East Anglian fenland : water, the work of imagination, and the creation of value / Richard D.G. Irvine -- Chapter 2. Fluid entitlements : constructing and contesting water allocations in Burkina Faso, West Africa / Ben Orlove, Carla Roncoli, and Brian Dowd-Uribe -- Chapter 3. Raining in the Andes : disrupted seasonal and hydrological cycles / Astrid B. Stensrud -- Chapter 4. Respect and passion in a lagoon in the South Pacific / Cecilie Rubow -- Chapter 5. West African waterworlds : narratives of absence versus narratives of excess / Mette Fog Olwig and Laura Vang Rasmussen -- Chapter 6. To the lighthouse : making a liveable world by the Bay of Bengal / Frida Hastrup -- Chapter 7. Enacting groundwaters in Tarawa, Kiribati : searching for facts and articulating concerns / Maria Louise Bønnelykke Robertson -- Chapter 8. Mapping urban waters : grounds and figures on an ethnographic water path / Astrid Oberborbeck Andersen -- Chapter 9. Water literacy in the Sahel : understanding rain and ground water / Anette Reenberg -- Chapter 10. Deep time and shallow waters : configurations of an irrigation channel in the Andes / Mattias Borg Rasmussen -- Chapter 11. Moral valves and fluid properties : water regulation mechanisms in the bâdia of southeastern Mauritania / Christian Vium -- Chapter 12. Reflecting nature : water beings in history and imagination / Veronica Strang -- Chapter 13. The North Water : life on the ice edge in the high Arctic / Kirsten Hastrup.
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