Waterworlds : Anthropology in Fluid Environments.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (318 pages)
- Ethnography, Theory, Experiment Series ; v.3 .
- Ethnography, Theory, Experiment Series .
Intro -- 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 Bengal -- Chapter 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 Imagination -- Chapter 13 - The North Water: Life on the Ice Edge in the HIgh Arctic -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.
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