How Water Makes Us Human
This book is about how water becomes people – or, put another way, how people and water flow together and shape each other. While the focus of the book is on the relationships held between water and people, it also has a broader message about human relationships with the environment generally – a me...
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University of Wales Press
2023
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| author | Attala, Luci |
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| description | This book is about how water becomes people – or, put another way, how people and water flow together and shape each other. While the focus of the book is on the relationships held between water and people, it also has a broader message about human relationships with the environment generally – a message that illustrates not only that people are existentially entangled with the material world, but that the materials of the world shape, determine and enable humans to be ‘humans’ in the ways that they are. Offering a selection of anthropological examples from Kenya, Wales and Spain to illustrate how water’s materiality coproductively generates the way people are able to engage with water, this book uses cross-disciplinary perspectives to provide and promote a new analytic – one that encourages ethical, holistic and sustainable relationships with the world around us. This approach challenges representations that ignore, sidestep or are blind to the fleshy materiality of being human, and aims to encourage a re-imagining of the world that acknowledges humanity as intrinsically active-with and part of the fabric of the collection of materials we call planet Earth. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1219492025-07-31T02:55:10Z How Water Makes Us Human Attala, Luci Social Science Anthropology Cultural & Social This book is about how water becomes people – or, put another way, how people and water flow together and shape each other. While the focus of the book is on the relationships held between water and people, it also has a broader message about human relationships with the environment generally – a message that illustrates not only that people are existentially entangled with the material world, but that the materials of the world shape, determine and enable humans to be ‘humans’ in the ways that they are. Offering a selection of anthropological examples from Kenya, Wales and Spain to illustrate how water’s materiality coproductively generates the way people are able to engage with water, this book uses cross-disciplinary perspectives to provide and promote a new analytic – one that encourages ethical, holistic and sustainable relationships with the world around us. This approach challenges representations that ignore, sidestep or are blind to the fleshy materiality of being human, and aims to encourage a re-imagining of the world that acknowledges humanity as intrinsically active-with and part of the fabric of the collection of materials we call planet Earth. 2023-11-17T09:05:40Z 2023-11-17T09:05:40Z 2023-11-03T05:30:52Z 2019 book OCN: 1103218319 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/77197 9781786834119 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/121949 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/77197/1/external_content.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/77197/1/external_content.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/77197/1/external_content.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/77197/1/external_content.pdf University of Wales Press University of Wales Press 0a623d1c-0963-4c53-880e-4ddd1a3612d7 Knowledge Unlatched 9781786834119 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) KU Select 2023: HSS Backlist Books University of Wales Press open access |
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