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Author:   Luci Attala
Publisher:   University of Wales Press
Imprint:   University of Wales Press
ISBN:  

9781786834119

ISBN 10:   1786834111
Pages:   208
Publication Date:   01 April 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements 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 Index

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It 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

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This 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.

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