Delta Life

Exploring Dynamic Environments where Rivers Meet the Sea
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-80073-124-0
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 28, 262 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 515 g

Reihe: Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Krause, Franz

Harris, Mark

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Life at Water’s Edge

Franz Krause and Mark Harris

Chapter 1. Displacing the Delta: Notes on the Anthropology of the Earth’s Physical Features

Tanya Richardson

Chapter 2. The Global Swamp. Or, the Amphibious as a Figure of Heterotopia

Lukas Ley

Chapter 3. Stagnation: Waterflows and the Politics of Stranded Matter in La Mojana, Colombia

Alejandro Camargo

Chapter 4. Economy, Identity and Hydrology: Toward a Holistic Approach to Intersecting Volatilities in the Mackenzie Delta, Canada

Franz Krause

Chapter 5. ‘This Tide Will Be a Good Tide’: On Movement, Anticipative Waiting and Tricking on the Islands of the Parnaíba Delta, Brazil

Nora Horisberger

Chapter 6. Gleaning Time: Practice, Pause and Anticipation in the Sine-Saloum Delta, Senegal

Sandro Simon

Chapter 7. Lived Histories of Flows and Sediments in a Turkish Delta

Catarina Scaramelli

Chapter 8. Available, Yet Unavailable: Anchoring Land in the Ayeyarwady Delta, Myanmar

Benoit Ivars

Conclusion: Confluences and Distributaries in Delta Life

Franz Krause and Mark Harris

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Harris, Mark
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.

Krause, Franz
Franz Krause is an anthropologist interested in the role of water in society and culture. He works as Junior Research Group Leader of the DELTA project at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology and the Global South Studies Center, University of Cologne, Germany.

Franz Krause is an anthropologist interested in the role of water in society and culture. He works as Junior Research Group Leader of the DELTA project at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology and the Global South Studies Center, University of Cologne, Germany.