Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology. Delta Life : Exploring Dynamic Environments where Rivers Meet the Sea /

Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology. Delta Life : Exploring Dynamic Environments where Rivers Meet the Sea /

Proposing a series of innovative steps towards better understanding human lives at the interstices of water and land, this volume includes eight ethnographies from deltas around the world. The book presents 'delta life' with intimate descriptions of the predicaments, imaginations and activ...

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Other Authors: Camargo, Alejandro (Contributor), Harris, Mark (Contributor, Editor), Horisberger, Nora (Contributor), Ivars, Benoit (Contributor), Krause, Franz (Contributor, Editor), Ley, Lukas (Contributor), Richardson, Tanya (Contributor), Scaramelli, Caterina (Contributor), Simon, Sandro (Contributor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2021]
Series:Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology ; 28
Subjects:
Deltas > Environmental aspects.
Deltas.
Ethnology.
Water supply.
Water-supply.
Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • 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 Parnaíba 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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