Waterworlds

Anthropology in Fluid Environments
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-78238-946-0
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 3, 318 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 616 g

Reihe: Ethnography, Theory, Experiment

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hastrup, Kirsten

Hastrup, Frida

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Umwelt und Kultur, Kulturökologie
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Deltas, Flussmündungen, Küstenregionen
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Ethnographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

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 on Contributors

Über Autor(innen)

Hastrup, Frida
Frida Hastrup is Associate Professor of Ethnology at the Saxo Institute, University of Copenhagen. Her publications include the monograph Weathering the World: Recovery in the Wake of the Tsunami in a Tamil Fishing Village (2011). She is leading a research project about natural resources.

Hastrup, Kirsten
Kirsten Hastrup is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Copenhagen. She received an ERC Advanced Grant in 2008, enabling the collaborative research project Waterworlds (2009-2014). Among her publications are three monographs based on her work on long-term natural and social histories in Iceland. Since then she has worked in Greenland and published many edited volumes such as Anthropology and Nature (2014).

Kirsten Hastrup is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Copenhagen. She received an ERC Advanced Grant in 2008, enabling the collaborative research project Waterworlds (2009-2014). Among her publications are three monographs based on her work on long-term natural and social histories in Iceland. Since then she has worked in Greenland and published many edited volumes such as Anthropology and Nature (2014).