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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Krause, Franz, editor (editor), Harris, Mark, 1969- editor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn 2021.
Colección:JSTOR Open Access monographs.
Studies in environmental anthropology and ethnobiology ; volume 28.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b46219614*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • 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 Parnaiba 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.