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Thinking like a river : an anthropology of water and its uses along the Kemi River, Northern Finland /
The Kemi River is the major watercourse in the Finnish province of Lapland and the »stream of life« for the inhabitants of its banks. Franz Krause examines fishing, transport and hydropower on the Kemi River and analyses the profoundly rhythmic patterns in the river dwellers' activities and the...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bielefeld :
Transcript Verlag,
[2023]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover
- Contents
- Figures
- Foreword
- Preface
- 1. Introduction
- Research objectives
- The Kemi River
- The meaning of water
- Towards a concept of flow
- A genealogy of "thinking like a river"
- Methods
- Overview
- 2. River dwellers: Living along the "stream of life"
- Introduction
- Ethnic labels and cultural mixing along the river
- Rivers as trajectories of contact
- Dynamics of cultural adaptation and adoption
- Categories and categorisations
- An unlabelled identity
- River dwellers
- Tapani
- Anneli
- Helena
- Erkki
- River courses and life histories
- Alienation, idealisation, transfiguration
- and continuation
- The lost significance of the river
- River history as cut-off past, or as inspiration for the future
- Generations of river dwellers
- Diversified livelihoods and specialised employment
- Leisure and livelihood
- Conclusion
- 3. A fluvial topology: The river as space-maker
- Introduction
- Naming a river
- Of "rivers" and "branches"
- Place names and river names
- River course, catchment and source
- Up and down, north and south, as suggested by the river's flow
- Up and down as directions of movement through the catchment
- Riverine place names
- Place names, house names, family names
- Relational naming of places and people
- Upstream as "north", downstream as "south"
- The river as separator or integrator
- Conclusion
- 4. Shaping and reshaping the river: Towards an environmental history
- Introduction
- The progressive genesis of a river
- The dominance of salmon weir fishing
- The establishment of timber floating
- The river as a means of timber transportation
- The spread of hydroelectricity and the displacement of floating
- Hegemonic hydroelectricity
- Conservation, tourism, and present struggles for hegemony
- The continuing genesis of a river
- Conclusion
- 5. Fishing the Kemi River: Engagement and empathy with a flow
- Introduction
- Fishing for fish and good times
- Private fishing grounds and fleeting fish
- Fishing techniques: Inversions of the fish's life story
- Lure fishing
- Net and trap fishing
- Fish as river indicators
- Rubbish fish, valuable fish
- Grayling
- an indexical river fish
- Salmon
- fishing for a symbol
- Fishing farmed fish
- Seasonalities of fishing
- Fishing as attention to the river
- Conclusion
- 6. Boating along the Kemi River: Claiming and understanding water through navigation
- Introduction
- Boaters, boats and a flowing river
- River boats
- Currents and rapids
- Ways of boating
- Boating as relating with the river
- Claiming the river through boating
- Traditions of boating
- Boating place names
- Moving along the river
- Portages
- Boating in a world of roads
- Conclusion
- 7. Timber floating down the river: Managing flow and friction of people, wood and water
- Introduction
- River dwellers as rafters