Beschreibung
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 activities of delta inhabitants. Conceptually, the collection develops delta life as a metaphor for approaching continual and intersecting sociocultural, economic and material transformations more widely. The book revolves around questions of hydrosociality, volatility, rhythms and scale. It thereby yields insights into peoples lives that conventional, hydrological approaches to deltas cannot provide.
Autorenportrait
Mark Harris is the Head of the School of Philosophical, Anthropological and Film Studies at the University of St Andrews, UK. His wider interests include ethnohistory; environmental anthropology; knowledge in and methodology of the social sciences and the practice of teaching and learning.
Inhalt
List of FiguresAcknowledgements
Introduction: Life at Waters EdgeFranz Krause and Mark Harris
Chapter 1. Displacing the Delta: Notes on the Anthropology of the Earths Physical FeaturesTanya Richardson
Chapter 2. The Global Swamp. Or, the Amphibious as a Figure of HeterotopiaLukas Ley
Chapter 3. Stagnation: Waterflows and the Politics of Stranded Matter in La Mojana, ColombiaAlejandro Camargo
Chapter 4. Economy, Identity and Hydrology: Toward a Holistic Approach to Intersecting Volatilities in the Mackenzie Delta, CanadaFranz Krause
Chapter 5. This Tide Will Be a Good Tide: On Movement, Anticipative Waiting and Tricking on the Islands of the Parnaíba Delta, BrazilNora Horisberger
Chapter 6. Gleaning Time: Practice, Pause and Anticipation in the Sine-Saloum Delta, SenegalSandro Simon
Chapter 7. Lived Histories of Flows and Sediments in a Turkish DeltaCatarina Scaramelli
Chapter 8. Available, Yet Unavailable: Anchoring Land in the Ayeyarwady Delta, MyanmarBenoit Ivars
Conclusion: Confluences and Distributaries in Delta LifeFranz Krause and Mark Harris
Index
Informationen zu E-Books
Individuelle Erläuterung zu E-Books
