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

• Pubblicazione: New York ; ; Oxford, England : , : Berghahn Books, , 2016; ©2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (318 p.)
• Disciplina: 333.91
• Soggetto topico: Water - Social aspects; Water use - Social aspects; Water and civilization; Human ecology
• Classificazione: RB 10844
• Persona (resp. second.): HastrupKirsten; HastrupFrida; AndersenAstrid Oberborbeck
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Anthropology in fluid environments
• ISBN: 1-78238-947-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910797913303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Ethnography, theory, experiment ; ; Volume 3.