Book available in 2015. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Chapter 13. The North Water : life on the ice edge in the high Arctic / Kirsten 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.
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