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How Water Makes Us Human : Engagements with the Materiality of Water.

This book provides a novel cross-disciplinary approach to water, demonstrating the role water plays in shaping human lives. It uses anthropological information about water in Kenya, Wales and Spain to show how what water does in those areas has influenced the way that people can be with it.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Attala, Luci
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2019.
Colección:Materialities in anthropology and archaeology.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 8 |a Water: the shape of life, and when water is human3: Resource or Source?: How to Approach Water in the Time of Climate Change; Part Two; 4: Introduction; 5: The Giriama in Kenya: Living with Drought; Water practices: rain, roofs, rivers and water basins; Head carrying: water shaping gendered bodies; Giriama conceptions of water; Fu ha mwenga: fluidity and identity; Watery identities; Identity solutions: blending place, power and water; MaKaya: home from home; Giriama waters and authenticity: understanding the materiality of water; 6: Lanjaron, Spain; Slow water: glaciers, ice and snow 
505 8 |a The Moorish influence: hydrologersInvisible waters; Not all waters are equal; Mineral water: healing and destruction; Change: festivities and water; The ritual; 7: Welsh Water: The Resourcefulness of Water; Establishing Welsh water: then and now; The language of water; Discourses on deluge; Water relationships, powers and control; Memories of floods and flooding; Water and memory: 'Remember Tryweryn'; Reservoirs; Yma o hyd (Still here); 8: Concluding Remarks; References; Index; Back Cover 
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