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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828163003321

Titolo

Anthropology in fluid environments / / edited by Kirsten Hastrup and Frida Hastrup ; contributors Astrid Oberborbeck Andersen [and fifteen others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; Oxford, England : , : Berghahn Books, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-78238-947-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (318 p.)

Collana

Ethnography, Theory, Experiment ; ; Volume 3

Classificazione

RB 10844

Disciplina

333.91

Soggetti

Water - Social aspects

Water use - Social aspects

Water and civilization

Human ecology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

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

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

Sommario/riassunto

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 world where unbounded relationalities and unsettled frames of orientation mark the lives of all, anthropologists included. Water emerges as a fluid object in more senses than one, challenging anthropologists to foreground the mutable character of their objects of study and to responsibly engage with the generative role of cultural analysis.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910438344303321

Autore

Wallwork Adrian

Titolo

English for Academic Research: Writing Exercises / / by Adrian Wallwork

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY : , : Springer US : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2013

ISBN

9781299408104

1299408109

9781461442981

1461442982

Edizione

[1st ed. 2013.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (199 p.)

Collana

English for Academic Research, , 2625-3453

Disciplina

428.1076

Soggetti

Language and languages - Study and teaching

Communication

Social sciences

Humanities

Language Education

Media and Communication

Humanities and Social Sciences

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.



Nota di contenuto

1. Punctuation and Spelling -- 2. Word Order -- 3. Writing Short Sentences and Paragraphs -- 4. Link Words: Connecting Phrases and Sentences Together -- 5. Being Concise and Removing Redundancy -- 6. Ambiguity and Political Correctness -- 7. Paraphrasing and Avoiding Plagiarism -- 8. Defining, Comparing, Evaluating, and Highlighting -- 9. Anticipating Possible Objections, Indicating Level of Certainty, Discussing Limitations, Hedging, Future Work -- 10. Writing Each Section of a Paper -- Acknowledgements -- About the Author -- Editing Service -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

This book is based on a study of referees’ reports and letters from journal editors on reasons why papers written by non-native researchers are rejected due to problem with English (long sentences, redundancy, poor structure etc.). It draws on English-related errors from around 5000 papers written by non-native authors, around 3000 emails, 500 abstracts by PhD students, and over 1000 hours of teaching researchers how to write and present research papers. Some exercises require no actual writing but simply choosing between various options, thus facilitating self-study, e-reading and rapid progress. In those exercises where extended writing is required, model answers are given. Exercise types are repeated for different contexts, for example the importance of being concise is tested for use in papers, referees’ reports, and emails of various types. Such repetition of similar types of exercises is designed to facilitate revision. The exercises can also be integrated into English for Academic Purposes (EAP) and English for Special Purposes (ESP) courses at universities and research institutes. Other related books in this series: · English for Academic Research: Grammar Exercises · English for Academic Research: Grammar, Usage and Style · English for Writing Research Papers · English for Academic Research: Teacher’s Guide Adrian Wallwork has written over 30 books covering General English (Cambridge University Press, Scholastic), Business English (Oxford University Press), and Scientific English (Springer). He has trained several thousand PhD students from all over the world to write and present their research. Adrian also runs a scientific editing service: English for Academics (E4AC).