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Waterworlds: Anthropology in Fluid Environments
Kirsten Hastrup (Ed.)
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Description for Waterworlds: Anthropology in Fluid Environments
Hardback. In one form or another, water participates in the making and unmaking of people's lives, practices, and stories. Contributors analyse the union of water and social lives, thereby challenging anthropologists to foreground the mutable character of their subjects and responsibly engage with the generative role of cultural analysis. Editor(s): Hastrup, Kirsten; Hastrup, Frida. Series: Ethnography, Theory, Experiment. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: JHMC; RNT. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. .
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.
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.
Product Details
Publisher
Berghahn Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Series
Ethnography, Theory, Experiment
Condition
New
Weight
620g
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781782389460
SKU
V9781782389460
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99-15
About Kirsten Hastrup (Ed.)
Kirsten Hastrup is Professor of Anthropology at University of Copenhagen. She received an ERC Advanced Grant in 2008, enabling the collaborative research project Waterworlds (2009-2013). 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 ... Read more
Reviews for Waterworlds: Anthropology in Fluid Environments
A superb book, the chapters provide a wide range of approaches, from excellent descriptive ethnography to hard-hitting critiques of development practice. Water's qualities provide a common theme and inspire groundbreaking theory.
Marc Brightman, University College London
Marc Brightman, University College London