| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 308 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Series |
Ethnography, theory, experiment ; volume 3 |
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Ethnography, theory, experiment ; v. 3.
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| 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. The North Water : life on the ice edge in the high Arctic / Kirsten Hastrup |
| Notes |
Book available in 2015 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Water -- Social aspects
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Water use -- Social aspects
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Water and civilization
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Human ecology.
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human ecology.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Real Estate -- General.
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Human ecology
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Water and civilization
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Water -- Social aspects
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Water use -- Social aspects
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Wasser
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Ethnologie
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Umweltfaktor
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Hastrup, Kirsten, editor
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Hastrup, Frida, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781782389477 |
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1782389474 |
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1782389474 |
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