Thinking Like a River : An Anthropology of Water and Its Uses Along the Kemi River, Northern Finland / Franz Krause
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| Autore: |
Krause Franz <p>Franz Krause, Universität Köln, Deutschland </p>
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| Titolo: |
Thinking Like a River : An Anthropology of Water and Its Uses Along the Kemi River, Northern Finland / Franz Krause
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| Pubblicazione: | Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2023 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (295 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 306.094897 |
| Soggetto topico: | Water |
| Seasons | |
| Lapland | |
| Hydropower | |
| Fishing | |
| Nature | |
| Society | |
| Cultural Anthropology | |
| Cultural Geography | |
| Environmental History | |
| Ecology | |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Frontmatter 1 Contents 7 Figures 11 Foreword 13 Preface 15 1. Introduction 19 2. River dwellers: Living along the "stream of life" 37 3. A fluvial topology: The river as space-maker 65 4. Shaping and reshaping the river: Towards an environmental history 83 5. Fishing the Kemi River: Engagement and empathy with a flow 113 6. Boating along the Kemi River: Claiming and understanding water through navigation 137 7. Timber floating down the river: Managing flow and friction of people, wood and water 155 8. Roads across the catchment: Acceleration, transformation and the seasonal world 173 9. The power of water: Hydroelectricity, river management and displacement 195 10. Rhythms, regularities and regulation: The temporality of the river 225 11. Conclusion 257 References 271 |
| Sommario/riassunto: | The Kemi River is the major watercourse in the Finnish province of Lapland and the »stream of life« for the inhabitants of its banks. Franz Krause examines fishing, transport and hydropower on the Kemi River and analyses the profoundly rhythmic patterns in the river dwellers' activities and the river's dynamics. The course of the seasons and weekly and daily rhythms of discharge, temperature, work and other patterns make the river dwellers' world an ever-transforming phenomenon. The flows of life and the frictions of everyday encounters continually remake the river and its inhabitants, negotiating national strategies, economic power, people's ingenuity, and the currents of the Kemi River. |
| »I recommend this book as an enjoyable read for anybody interested in nature humanrelations, their historical evolution, and prospective futures, in peripheral areas globally and in Northern Europe specifically. It is exceptionally rich in describing the various river practices and their embeddedness in dwellers lifeworlds, and Krause is highly convincing in analysing those within his chosen conceptual framework. | |
| Besprochen in: Russian journal Antropologicheskii Forum, 62 (2024), Kseniia Gavrilova | |
| Altri titoli varianti: | Krause, Thinking Like a River An Anthropology of Water and Its Uses Along the Kemi River, Northern Finland |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Thinking Like a River |
| ISBN: | 9783839467374 |
| 3839467373 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9911026030703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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UmweltEthnologie