Water, Scale and Materiality : Anthropological Perspectives on Hydrosocial Relations
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology
ISBN-10
1836954859
ISBN-13
9781836954859
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Imprint
Berghahn Books
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
May 15th, 2026
Print length
208 Pages
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Addresses diverse beliefs and values in relation to water and elucidate their social and ecological impacts. Addresses the challenge of reconciling different scales of environmental engagement. Encourages productive conversations between material culture specialists and anthropologists working on infrastructure.
Anthropology has an important role in articulating people’s engagements with water at different spatial and temporal scales, and in showing how local relationships with waterways and marine areas translate into larger anthropogenic impacts on regional and global ecosystems. This volume explores diverse relationships with waterbodies, and considers how these are expressed in art, material culture and infrastructures. Focusing on the multiple and overlapping scales at which people relate to water in contexts including wave science, Indigenous cosmology, extractive industries and environmental activism, it suggests that efforts to achieve more sustainable and equitable engagements with water must also be multi-scalar.
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