Water, Scale and Materiality
Anthropological Perspectives on Hydrosocial Relations
Will be published approx. on 1. May 2026
Book
Hardback
208 pages
978-1-83695-485-9 (ISBN)
Description
Addresses diverse beliefs and values in relation to water and elucidate their social and ecological impacts.
Addresses the challenge of reconciling different scales of environmental engagement.
Encourages productive conversations between material culture specialists and anthropologists working on infrastructure.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Bibliography; Index
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
451 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-83695-485-9 (9781836954859)
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Persons
Veronica Strang is a cultural anthropologist with a longstanding interest in societies' engagements with water. Following a decade as the Director of Durham University's Institute of Advanced Study, she is now affiliated to the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography at the University of Oxford.