LEADER 03329nam 22004453 450 001 9910955810503321 005 20230802175435.0 010 $a1-78683-413-8 035 $a(CKB)4100000008339123 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5780906 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7262922 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL7262922 035 $a(OCoLC)1385456174 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000008339123 100 $a20230802d2019 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aHow water makes us human $eengagements with the materiality of water /$fby Luci Attala 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aCardiff :$cUniversity of Wales Press,$d2019. 210 4$dİ2019 215 $a1 online resource (127 pages) 225 1 $aMaterialities in Anthropology and Archaeology 327 $aIntro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Part One -- 1: Introduction -- The direction and purpose: New Materialities -- Materiality/Material culture/New Materialities -- Why water? -- People: bodies and water -- Agency -- 2: Water Behaviours: A Brief Ethnography of Water -- What is water? -- First light, then water -- Being liquid: physics, classifications, breaking the law and transformation -- How can one know water? Liquid behaviours -- The importance of movement: molecular sociology -- Solvents and solutions -- But how does water move? Circles, cycles and snakes -- The earth and the air -- Water: the shape of life, and when water is human -- 3: 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 -- The Moorish influence: hydrologers -- Invisible 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. 330 $aThis book provides a novel cross-disciplinary approach to water, demonstrating the role water plays in shaping human lives. It uses anthropological information about water in Kenya, Wales and Spain to show how what water does in those areas has influenced the way that people can be with it. 410 0$aMaterialities in anthropology and archaeology. 606 $aWater$xPhilosophy 615 0$aWater$xPhilosophy. 676 $a613.287 700 $aAttala$b Luci$01433905 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910955810503321 996 $aHow water makes us human$93584741 997 $aUNINA