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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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Andersen, Astrid Oberborbeck (Contribuidor), Dowd-Uribe, Brian (Contribuidor), Hastrup, Frida (Contribuidor, Editor ), Hastrup, Kirsten (Contribuidor, Editor ), Irvine, Richard D.G (Contribuidor), Olwig, Mette Fog (Contribuidor), Orlove, Ben (Contribuidor), Rasmussen, Laura Vang (Contribuidor), Rasmussen, Mattias Borg (Contribuidor), Reenberg, Anette (Contribuidor), Robertson, Maria Louise Bønnelykke (Contribuidor), Roncoli, Carla (Contribuidor), Rubow, Cecilie (Contribuidor), Stensrud, Astrid B. (Contribuidor), Strang, Veronica (Contribuidor), Vium, Christian (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2015]
Colección:Ethnography, Theory, Experiment ; 3
Temas:
Human ecology.
Water and civilization.
Water use > Social aspects.
Water > Social aspects.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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

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