How water makes us human : engagements with the materiality of water / / by Luci Attala
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| Autore: |
Attala Luci
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| Titolo: |
How water makes us human : engagements with the materiality of water / / by Luci Attala
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| Pubblicazione: | Cardiff : , : University of Wales Press, , 2019 |
| ©2019 | |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (127 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 613.287 |
| Soggetto topico: | Water - Philosophy |
| Nota di contenuto: | Intro -- 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | How water makes us human |
| ISBN: | 1-78683-413-8 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910862201303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Materialities in anthropology and archaeology.