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UNINA9910480124003321 |
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Anthropology in fluid environments / / edited by Kirsten Hastrup and Frida Hastrup ; contributors Astrid Oberborbeck Andersen [and fifteen others] |
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New York ; ; Oxford, England : , : Berghahn Books, , 2016 |
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©2016 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (318 p.) |
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Collana |
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Ethnography, Theory, Experiment ; ; Volume 3 |
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Soggetti |
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Water - Social aspects |
Water use - Social aspects |
Water and civilization |
Human ecology |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface and Acknowledgements; Introduction: Waterworlds At Large; Chapter 1 - East Anglian Fenland: Water, the Work of Imagination, and the Creation of Value; Chapter 2 - Fluid Entitlements: Constructing and Contesting Water Allocations in Burkina Faso, West Africa; Chapter 3 - Raining in the Andes: Disrupted Seasonal and Hydrological Cycles; Chapter 4 - Respect and Passion in a Lagoon in the South Pacific; Chapter 5 - West African Waterworlds: Narratives of Absence versus Narratives of Excess |
Chapter 6 - To the Lighthouse: Making a Liveable World by the Bay of BengalChapter 7 - Enacting Groundwaters in Tarawa, Kiribati: Searching for Facts and Articulating Concerns; Chapter 8 - Mapping Urban Waters: Grounds and Figures on an Ethnographic Water Path; Chapter 9 - Water Literacy in the Sahel: Understanding Rain and Groundwater; Chapter 10 - Deep Time and Shallow Waters: Configurations of an Irrigation Channel in the Andes; Chapter 11 - Moral Valves and Fluid Properties: Water Regulation Mechanisms in the Badia of South-Eastern Mauritania |
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Chapter 12 - Reflecting Nature: Water Beings in History and ImaginationChapter 13 - The North Water: Life on the Ice Edge in the HIgh Arctic; Notes on Contributors; Index |
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