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  • Water

    Nature and Culture

    by Veronica Strang ...
    Series series Earth
    Water flows centrally through human lives, hydrating our bodies and all of the organic species on which we depend; sustaining the ecosystems we inhabit; and enabling our agricultural and technological developments. Throughout human history, water’s life-giving and destructive capacities have had powerful symbolic meanings for diverse cultures and societies. Water considers our relationship with ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Water, Scale and Materiality

    Anthropological Perspectives on Hydrosocial Relations

    Edited by Veronica Strang, Franz Krause ...
    Series Book 36 - Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology
    Anthropology has an important role in articulating people’s engagements with water at different spatial and temporal scales, and in showing how local relationships with waterways and marine areas translate into larger anthropogenic impacts on regional and global ecosystems. This volume explores diverse relationships with waterbodies, and considers how these are expressed in art, material culture ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Water Beings

    From Nature Worship to the Environmental Crisis

    by Veronica Strang ...
    Early human relationships with water were expressed through beliefs in serpentine aquatic deities: rainbow-coloured, feathered or horned serpents, giant anacondas and dragons. Representing the powers of water, these beings were bringers of life and sustenance, world creators, ancestors, guardian spirits and law makers. Worshipped and appeased, they embodied people’s respect for water and its vital ... Read more

    $39.39 USD

  • The Meaning of Water

    by Veronica Strang ...
    Water is the most valuable resource and the most passionately contested. Drought has become an increasingly extreme problem in many parts of the world, and it is predicted that 60% of the major cities in Europe will run short of water in the next decade. In industrialized countries per capita water usage continues to rise intractably, despite strenuous efforts by environmentalists and resource ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • What Anthropologists Do

    by Veronica Strang ...
    Why should you study anthropology? How will it enable you to understand human behaviour? And what will you learn that will equip you to enter working life?This book describes what studying anthropology actually means in practice, and explores the many career options available to those trained in anthropology. Anthropology gets under the surface of social and cultural diversity to understand people ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Uncommon Ground

    Landscape, Values and the Environment

    by Veronica Strang ...
    Series series Explorations in Anthropology
    - What makes people care about the environment? - Why and how do different cultural groups value land in different ways? With increasing international concern about green issues, and the apparent failure of mechanistic solutions to complex problems, Uncommon Ground provides a timely understanding of the cultural values that underpin human-environmental relations. Through a comparison of two very ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • What Anthropologists Do

    by Veronica Strang ...
    What is Anthropology? Why should you study it? What will you learn? And what can you do with it? What Anthropologists Do answers all these questions. And more.Anthropology is an astonishingly diverse and engaged subject that seeks to understand human social behaviour. What Anthropologists Do presents a lively introduction to the ways in which anthropology's unique research methods and cutting-edge ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Gardening the World

    Agency, Identity and the Ownership of Water

    by Veronica Strang ...
    Around the world, intensifying development and human demands for fresh water are placing unsustainable pressures on finite resources. Countries are waging war over transboundary rivers, and rural and urban communities are increasingly divided as irrigation demands compete with domestic desires. Marginal groups are losing access to water as powerful elites protect their own interests, and entire ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Gardening the World

    Agency, Identity and the Ownership of Water

    by Veronica Strang ...
    Around the world, intensifying development and human demands for fresh water are placing unsustainable pressures on finite resources. Countries are waging war over transboundary rivers, and rural and urban communities are increasingly divided as irrigation demands compete with domestic desires. Marginal groups are losing access to water as powerful elites protect their own interests, and entire ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • Ownership and Appropriation

    Edited by Veronica Strang, Mark Busse ...
    Series series ASA Monographs
    In a world of finite resources, expanding populations and widening structural inequalities, the ownership of things is increasingly contested. Not only are the commons being rapidly enclosed and privatized, but the very idea of what can be owned is expanding, generating conflicts over the ownership of resources, ideas, culture, people, and even parts of people. Understanding processes of ownership ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • From the Lighthouse: Interdisciplinary Reflections on Light

    Edited by Veronica Strang, Tim Edensor, Joanna Puckering ...
    What is a lighthouse? What does it mean? What does it do? This book shows how exchanging knowledge across disciplinary boundaries can transform our thinking. Adopting an unconventional structure, this book involves the reader in a multivocal conversation between scholars, poets and artists. Seen through their individual perspectives, lighthouses appear as signals of safety, beacons of ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • The SAGE Handbook of Social Anthropology

    Edited by Richard Fardon, Oliva Harris, Cris Shore, Veronica Strang, Mark Nuttall, Trevor H J Marchand, Richard A Wilson ...
    In two volumes, the SAGE Handbook of Social Anthropology provides the definitive overview of contemporary research in the discipline. It explains the what, where, and how of current and anticipated work in Social Anthropology. With 80 authors, contributing more than 60 chapters, this is the most comprehensive and up-to-date statement of research in Social Anthropology available and the essential ... Read more

    $300.59 USD