Amphibious anthropologies : living in wet environments / edited by Alejandro Camargo, Luisa Cortesi, and Franz Krause, [foreword by K. Sivaramakrishnan].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Camargo, Alejandro, editor.

Cortesi, Luisa, 1980- editor.

Krause, Franz, editor.

Sivaramakrishnan, K., writer of foreword.

Series:

Culture, place, and nature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bodies of water--Social aspects--Case studies.

Bodies of water.

Human ecology--Case studies.

Human ecology.

Aquatic ecology--Case studies.

Aquatic ecology.

Human geography--Case studies.

Human geography.

Physical Description:

xiv, 291 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2025]

Summary:

"This interdisciplinary volume brings together a diverse set of case studies, from the historic marshes of Italy to the present-day tidal pools of the Bahamas, to offer a new way of interrogating environments beholden to the shifting presence - including an overabundance and lack -- of wetness. All of the chapters are in-depth ethnographic accounts, yet each also proposes an interdisciplinary analysis, weaving together anthropology, geography, environmental management, history, STS, tourism studies, and ecology"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction. Amphibious anthropologies / Alejandro Camargo, Luisa Cortesi, Franz Krause

Post-natural environmental management in an amphibious delta : hybridity, performativity, and indeterminacy at the Salton Sea / Alida Cantor

Between hydro and geo : amphibious spaces of social exception / Simone Popperl

The shape of waterland : a geo-morpho-anthropological commentary on institutional infrastructures of fluvial management and amphibious environmental knowledge / Luisa Cortesi

Keeping the land wet : "wet lands" and the rise of "wetland literacy" / Paolo Gruppuso

Situating wetness in Soomaa, Estonia / Franz Krause

The hyporheic imaginary in multispecies watershed governance : how beaver collaborations remix patterns of wet and dry in northern California streams / Cleo Woelfle-Hazard and Daniel Sarna-Wojcicki

Restoring wetlands in alpine ski resorts : the biopolitics of water, land, and snow / Céline Granjou and Stéphanie Gaucherand

Muddy waters : governing the littoral in Andros Island, the Bahamas / Sarah Wise

The contours of the amphibious : wetlands, knowledge, and politics in Colombia / Alejandro Camargo

Amphibious epilogue / Stuart McLean.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780295753881

0295753889

9780295753898

0295753897

OCLC:

1463663390