{"product_id":"waterworlds-anthropology-in-fluid-environments-9781782389460","title":"Waterworlds: Anthropology in Fluid Environments","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“This collection is a rich quarry of manifold explorations of malleable, multiple, and vital waters in social and cultural life, which are always simultaneously a matter of concern for various political actions, and expressive of their own agentive capacities. Despite – or perhaps because of – the multiplicity of waters and approaches, it can be regarded as an asset to have these contributions combined in one book.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e· Anthropos\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“…anthropology is not a newcomer to the study of water as an object and agent of social organization and cultural imagining, and the current volume introduces the reader to a good deal of this literature. But it also makes an original contribution by assembling a quantity of ethnographic cases and applying the anthropological perspective to issues of knowledge, management, and morality. The collected ethnographies illustrate, to quote Lévi-Strauss, that water is not only good to drink but good to think.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e· Anthropology Review Database\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“A superb book, the chapters provide a wide range of approaches, from excellent descriptive ethnography to hard-hitting critiques of development practice. Water’s qualities provide a common theme and inspire groundbreaking theory.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e· Marc Brightman\u003c\/strong\u003e, University College London\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tPreface\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction:\u003c\/strong\u003e Waterworlds at Large\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eKirsten Hastrup and Frida Hastrup\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 1.\u003c\/strong\u003e East Anglian Fenland: Water, the Work of Imagination, and the Creation of Value\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eRichard D. G. Irvine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/strong\u003e Fluid Entitlements: Constructing and Contesting Water Allocations in Burkina Faso, West Africa\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eBen Orlove, Carla Roncoli, and Brian Dowd-Uribe\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/strong\u003e Raining in the Andes: Disrupted Seasonal and Hydrological Cycles\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eAstrid B. Stensrud\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/strong\u003e Respect and Passion in a Lagoon in the South Pacific\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eCecilie Rubow\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/strong\u003e West African Waterworlds: Narratives of Absence versus Narratives of Excess\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eMette Fog Olwig and Laura Vang Rasmussen\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/strong\u003e To the Lighthouse: Making a Liveable World by the Bay of Bengal\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eFrida Hastrup\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 7.\u003c\/strong\u003e Enacting Groundwaters in Tarawa, Kiribati: Searching for Facts and Articulating Concerns\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eMaria Louise Bønnelykke Robertson\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 8.\u003c\/strong\u003e Mapping Urban Waters: Grounds and Figures on an Ethnographic Water Path\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eAstrid Oberborbeck Andersen\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 9.\u003c\/strong\u003e Water Literacy in the Sahel: Understanding Rain and Ground Water\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eAnette Reenberg\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 10.\u003c\/strong\u003e Deep Time and Shallow Waters: Configurations of an Irrigation Channel in the Andes\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eMattias Borg Rasmussen\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 11.\u003c\/strong\u003e Moral Valves and Fluid Properties: Water Regulation Mechanisms in the Bâdia of Southeastern Mauritania\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eChristian Vium\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 12.\u003c\/strong\u003e Reflecting Nature: Water Beings in History and Imagination\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eVeronica Strang\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 13.\u003c\/strong\u003e The North Water: Life on the Ice Edge in the High Arctic\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eKirsten Hastrup\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tNotes on Contributors\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042225717591,"sku":"9781782389460","price":89.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781782389460.jpg?v=1750953522","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/waterworlds-anthropology-in-fluid-environments-9781782389460","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}