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OverviewHow Water Makes Us Human provides a novel cross-disciplinary approach to water, demonstrating the role water plays in shaping human lives. It uses anthropological information about water in Kenya, Wales and Spain to show how what water does in those areas has influenced the way that people can be with it. With ethnographically rich content, this book uses a novel approach to human relationships with the environment and offers a new method for thinking about sustainability. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Luci AttalaPublisher: University of Wales Press Imprint: University of Wales Press ISBN: 9781786834119ISBN 10: 1786834111 Pages: 208 Publication Date: 01 April 2019 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Preface Part One Chapter 1: Introduction The direction and purpose: New Materialities Materiality/Material Culture/ New Materialities Why water? People: bodies and water Agency Chapter 2: Water Behaviours: A Brief Ethnography of Water What is water? First light, then water Being liquid: physics, classifications, breaking the law and transformation How can one know water? Liquid behaviours The importance of movement: molecular sociology Solvents and solutions But how does water move? Circles, cycles and snakes The earth and the air Water: the shape of life and when water is human Chapter 3: Resource or Source: How to Approach Water in the Time of Climate Change Part Two Chapter 4: Introduction to Part Two Chapter 5: The Giriama in Kenya: Living with Drought Water practices: rain, roofs, rivers and water basins Headcarrying: water shaping gendered bodies Giriama conceptions of water Fu ha mwenga: fluidity and identity Watery identities Identity solutions: blending place, power and water MaKaya: home from home Giriama waters and authenticity: understanding the materiality of water Chapter 6: Lanjaron, Spain Slow water: glaciers, ice and snow The Moorish influence: hydrologers Invisible waters Not all waters are equal Mineral water: healing and destruction Change: festivities and water The ritual Chapter 7: Welsh Water: The Resourcefulness of Water Establishing Welsh water: then and now The language of water Discourses of deluge Water relationships, powers and control Memories of floods and flooding Water and memory: remember Tryweryn Yma o hyd (Still here) Chapter 8: Concluding Remarks References IndexReviewsIt is important for us to discover new ways of experiencing and speaking of our relationships with Nature. This book is a useful and welcome first step. --David Cadman, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, editor of Speeches and Articles of The Prince of Wales Luci Attala shows how water has shaped the physical, mythic, and political lives of three contrasting societies. Instead of seeing water as a resource, she asks what it makes of us. This is essential reading, a new way of understanding the surprising power of what is in the world to shape us. --Alan Ereira, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, author of The Heart of the World Author InformationThis book will be of a vital textbook to students and academics in higher Education. It is also relevant for Alevel geography, cultural studies, and human geography students. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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