Water, Scale and Materiality

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.

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

• List of FiguresAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Tracing Scales in Hydrosocial RelationsVeronica Strang and Franz KrauseChapter 1. Waves, In Silico: Scale, Ocean Memory and Computer Memory in a Digital Model of Worldwide WavesStefan HelmreichChapter 2. Flux and Flows in the Waters of Yolngu Country, Northeast Arnhem Land: Reflections on ScaleFrances MorphyChapter 3. From Rivulet to Flood: African Water Beings on Minor and Major ScalesVeronica StrangChapter 4. Unsettling Ice: Building Roads and Betting on Break-Up in the Mackenzie DeltaFranz KrauseChapter 5. The Arts of Streaming Central Asian River LifeJeanne Féaux de la CroixChapter 6. From Local to Virtual Water: The Industrialization of Underground Water During the Nitrate Mining Boom in the Tarapacá Region, Atacama Desert (1810–1930)Manuel MéndezConclusion: Ways of Scaling WaterFranz Krause and Veronica StrangAfterword: Reflections on Scale Inside and Outside AnthropologyHoward MorphyIndex