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Informationen zum Autor 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). 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. 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 ...
