Delta Life: Exploring Dynamic Environments where Rivers Meet the Sea (Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology, 28)

ISBN 10: 1800731248 ISBN 13: 9781800731240

Verlag: Berghahn Books, 2021

Inhaltsangabe

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 people's lives that conventional, hydrological approaches to deltas cannot provide.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Mark Harris is Professor of Historical Anthropology 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.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2021
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1800731248
• ISBN 13: 9781800731240
• Einband: Bibliothekseinband
• Anzahl der Seiten: 248
• Herausgeber: Krause Franz, Harris Mark
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: preigu GmbH & Co. KG; mail@preigu.de; ; Lengericher Landstr. 19; Osnabrück; Niedersachsen; 49078; Deutschland