Waterworlds : : Anthropology in Fluid Environments / / ed. by Kirsten Hastrup, Frida Hastrup.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• MitwirkendeR: Andersen, Astrid Oberborbeck,; Dowd-Uribe, Brian,; Hastrup, Frida,; Hastrup, Kirsten,; Irvine, Richard D.G.,; Olwig, Mette Fog,; Orlove, Ben,; Rasmussen, Laura Vang,; Rasmussen, Mattias Borg,; Reenberg, Anette,; Robertson, Maria Louise Bønnelykke,; Roncoli, Carla,; Rubow, Cecilie,; Stensrud, Astrid B.,; Strang, Veronica,; Vium, Christian,
• HerausgeberIn: Hastrup, Frida,; Hastrup, Kirsten,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Ethnography, Theory, Experiment ; 3
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (318 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS --; PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS --; Introduction: Waterworlds At Large --; 1 East Anglian Fenland: Water, the Work of Imagination, and the Creation of Value --; 2 Fluid Entitlements: Constructing and Contesting Water Allocations in Burkina Faso, West Africa --; 3 Raining in the Andes: Disrupted Seasonal and Hydrological Cycles --; 4 Respect and Passion in a Lagoon in the South Pacific --; 5 West African Waterworlds: Narratives of Absence versus Narratives of Excess --; 6 To the Lighthouse: Making a Liveable World by the Bay of Bengal --; 7 Enacting Groundwaters in Tarawa, Kiribati: Searching for Facts and Articulating Concerns --; 8 Mapping Urban Waters: Grounds and Figures on an Ethnographic Water Path --; 9 Water Literacy in the Sahel: Understanding Rain and Groundwater --; 10 Deep Time and Shallow Waters: Configurations of an Irrigation Channel in the Andes --; 11 Moral Valves and Fluid Properties: Water Regulation Mechanisms in the Bâdia of South-Eastern Mauritania --; 12 Reflecting Nature: Water Beings in History and Imagination --; 13 The North Water: Life on the Ice Edge in the High Arctic --; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS --; INDEX
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781782389477; 9783110998238
• DOI: 10.1515/9781782389477
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Kirsten Hastrup, Frida Hastrup.

In 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.