LEADER 03340 am 22005893u 450 001 9910282240003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-76046-217-9 035 $a(CKB)4730000000000034 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5485317 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11598184 035 $a(OCoLC)1040272968 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5485317 035 $a(EXLCZ)994730000000000034 100 $a20180914d2018 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aIsland rivers $efresh water and place in Oceania /$fedited by John R. Wagner and Jerry K. Jacka 210 1$aActon, ACT :$cANU Press,$d[2018] 210 4$dİ2018 215 $a1 online resource (264 pages) $cillustrations, maps 225 1 $aAsia-Pacific Environment Monograph ;$v13 311 $a1-76046-216-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 330 1 $a"Anthropologists have written a great deal about the coastal adaptations and seafaring traditions of Pacific Islanders, but have had much less to say about the significance of rivers for Pacific island culture, livelihood and identity. The authors of this collection seek to fill that gap in the ethnographic record by drawing attention to the deep historical attachments of island communities to rivers, and the ways in which those attachments are changing in response to various forms of economic development and social change. In addition to making a unique contribution to Pacific island ethnography, the authors of this volume speak to a global set of issues of immense importance to a world in which water scarcity, conflict, pollution and the degradation of riparian environments afflict growing numbers of people. Several authors take a political ecology approach to their topic, but the emphasis here is less on hydro-politics than on the cultural meaning of rivers to the communities we describe. How has the cultural significance of rivers shifted as a result of colonisation, development and nation-building? How do people whose identities are fundamentally rooted in their relationship to a particular river renegotiate that relationship when the river is dammed to generate hydro-power or polluted by mining activities? How do blockages in the flow of rivers and underground springs interrupt the intergenerational transmission of local ecological knowledge and hence the ability of local communities to construct collective identities rooted in a sense of place?" 410 0$aAsia-Pacific environment monograph ;$v13. 606 $aMaritime anthropology$zOceania 606 $aRivers$zOceania$xEthnology 606 $aRivers$zOceania 606 $aRivers$vFolklore 606 $aWater$xReligious aspects 606 $aCrocodiles$vFolklore 615 0$aMaritime anthropology 615 0$aRivers$xEthnology. 615 0$aRivers 615 0$aRivers 615 0$aWater$xReligious aspects. 615 0$aCrocodiles 676 $a303.4832099 702 $aWagner$b John Richard 702 $aJacka$b Jerry K.$f1966- 712 02$aAustralian National University Press, 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910282240003321 996 $aIsland rivers$91964923 997 $aUNINA