ISBN:
978-1-80073-125-7
,
978-1-80073-124-0 (ISBN der Printausgabe)
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (247 Seiten)
Series Statement:
Studies in Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology volume 28
Keywords:
Fluß Wasser
;
Meer
;
Leben
;
Kolumbien
;
Kanada
;
Brasilien
;
Senegal
;
Türkei
;
Burma
;
Anthropologie, soziale
Abstract:
Proposing a series of innovative steps towards better understanding human lives at the interstices of water and land, this volume includes eight ethnographies from deltas around the world. The book presents `delta life` with intimate descriptions of the predicaments, imaginations and activities of delta inhabitants. Conceptually, the collection develops `delta life` as a metaphor for approaching continual and intersecting sociocultural, economic and material transformations more widely. The book revolves around questions of hydrosociality, volatility, rhythms and scale. It thereby yields insights into people`s lives that conventional, hydrological approaches to deltas cannot provide. (Verlagsangaben)
Description / Table of Contents:
List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction - Life at Water's Edge -- Chapter 1 - Displacing the Delta: Notes on the Anthropology of the Earth's Physical Features -- Chapter 2 - The Global Swamp: The Amphibious as a Figure of Heterotopia -- Chapter 3 - Stagnation: Waterflows and the Politics of Stranded Matter in La Mojana, Colombia -- Chapter 4 - Economy, Identity and Hydrology: Towards a Holistic Approach to Intersecting Volatilities in the Mackenzie Delta, Canada -- Chapter 5 - 'This Tide Will Be a Good Tide': On Movement, Anticipative Waiting and Tricking on the Islands of the Parnaiba Delta, Brazil -- Chapter 6 - Gleaning Time: Practice, Pause and Anticipation in the Sine-Saloum Delta, Senegal -- Chapter 7 - Lived Histories of Flows and Sediments in a Turkish Delta -- Chapter 8 - Available, Yet Unavailable: Anchoring Land in the Ayeyarwady Delta, Myanmar -- Conclusion - Confluences and Distributaries in Delta Life -- Index
