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Title Waterworlds : anthropology in fluid environments / edited by Kirsten Hastrup and Frida Hastrup.

Publication Info. New York : Berghahn Books, [2016]
©2016

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 308 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Ethnography, theory, experiment ; volume 3
Ethnography, theory, experiment ; v. 3.
Note Book available in 2015.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction. Waterworlds at large / Kirsten Hastrup and Frida Hastrup -- Chapter 1. East Anglian fenland : water, the work of imagination, and the creation of value / Richard D.G. Irvine -- Chapter 2. Fluid entitlements : constructing and contesting water allocations in Burkina Faso, West Africa / Ben Orlove, Carla Roncoli, and Brian Dowd-Uribe -- Chapter 3. Raining in the Andes : disrupted seasonal and hydrological cycles / Astrid B. Stensrud -- Chapter 4. Respect and passion in a lagoon in the South Pacific / Cecilie Rubow -- Chapter 5. West African waterworlds : narratives of absence versus narratives of excess / Mette Fog Olwig and Laura Vang Rasmussen -- Chapter 6. To the lighthouse : making a liveable world by the Bay of Bengal / Frida Hastrup -- Chapter 7. Enacting groundwaters in Tarawa, Kiribati : searching for facts and articulating concerns / Maria Louise Bønnelykke Robertson -- Chapter 8. Mapping urban waters : grounds and figures on an ethnographic water path / Astrid Oberborbeck Andersen -- Chapter 9. Water literacy in the Sahel : understanding rain and ground water / Anette Reenberg -- Chapter 10. Deep time and shallow waters : configurations of an irrigation channel in the Andes / Mattias Borg Rasmussen -- Chapter 11. Moral valves and fluid properties : water regulation mechanisms in the bâdia of southeastern Mauritania / Christian Vium -- Chapter 12. Reflecting nature : water beings in history and imagination / Veronica Strang -- Chapter 13. North Water : life on the ice edge in the high Arctic / Kirsten Hastrup.
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Subject Water -- Social aspects.
Water -- Social aspects.
Water.
Water use -- Social aspects.
Water use -- Social aspects.
Water use.
Water and civilization.
Human ecology.
Water and civilization.
human ecology.
Human ecology.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Real Estate -- General.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Hastrup, Kirsten, editor.
Hastrup, Frida, editor.
Added Title Anthropology in fluid environments
Other Form: Print version: Waterworlds. New York : Berghahn Books, [2016] 9781782389460 (DLC) 2015007892 (OCoLC)907204907
ISBN 9781782389477 (electronic book)
1782389474 (electronic book)
1782389474 (ebook)
9781782389460
1782389466