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Author Mark Harris

Title Delta Life: Exploring Dynamic Environments Where Rivers Meet the Sea
Published Berghahn Books

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Contents Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Life at Water's Edge -- Chapter 1 -- Displacing the Delta: Notes on the Anthropology of the Earth's Physical Features -- Chapter 2 -- The Global Swamp: The Amphibious as a Figure of Heterotopia -- Chapter 3 -- Stagnation: Waterflows and the Politics of Stranded Matter in La Mojana, Colombia -- Chapter 4 -- Economy, Identity and Hydrology: Towards a Holistic Approach to Intersecting Volatilities in the Mackenzie Delta, Canada
Chapter 5 -- 'This Tide Will Be a Good Tide': On Movement, Anticipative Waiting and Tricking on the Islands of the Parnaiba Delta, Brazil -- Chapter 6 -- Gleaning Time: Practice, Pause and Anticipation in the Sine-Saloum Delta, Senegal -- Chapter 7 -- Lived Histories of Flows and Sediments in a Turkish Delta -- Chapter 8 -- Available, Yet Unavailable: Anchoring Land in the Ayeyarwady Delta, Myanmar -- Conclusion -- Confluences and Distributaries in Delta Life -- Index
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Subject Deltas.
Deltas -- Environmental aspects
Ethnology.
Water-supply.
deltas.
Deltas
Ethnology
Water-supply
Form Electronic book
Author Franz Krause
ISBN 9781800731240
1800731248
9781800731257
1800731256