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Water, Scale and Materiality: Anthropological Perspectives on Hydrosocial Relations

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Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology



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Water, Scale and Materiality

Anthropological Perspectives on Hydrosocial Relations

Edited by Veronica Strang and Franz Krause

Afterword by Howard Morphy

208 pages, 41 illus., bibliog., index

ISBN  978-1-83695-485-9 $135.00/£104.00 / Hb / Not Yet Published (May 2026)

eISBN 978-1-83695-486-6 eBook Not Yet Published


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“An ambitious and promising contribution to the theoretical and methodological development of the anthropology of water.” • Ina Dietzsch, Institut für Empirische Kulturwissenschaft

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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 and infrastructures. Focusing on the multiple and overlapping scales at which people relate to water in contexts including wave science, Indigenous cosmology, extractive industries and environmental activism, it suggests that efforts to achieve more sustainable and equitable engagements with water must also be multi-scalar.

Veronica Strang is a Professor of Anthropology and Executive Director of the Institute of Advanced Study at Durham University. An environmental anthropologist, she has written extensively on water, land and resource issues in Australia and the UK, and is the author of Uncommon Ground: Cultural Landscapes and Environmental Values (Berg 1997), and The Meaning of Water (Berg 2004). She also co-edited, with Mark Busse, the ASA Monograph, Ownership and Appropriation.

Franz Krause is an anthropologist interested in the role of water in society and culture. He works as Junior Research Group Leader of the DELTA project at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology and the Global South Studies Center, University of Cologne, Germany.

Subject: Anthropology (General)Environmental Studies (General)Sustainable Development Goals


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