Water, Scale and Materiality

Veronica Strang is a cultural anthropologist with a longstanding interest in societies’ engagements with water. Following a decade as the Director of Durham University's Institute of Advanced Study, she is now affiliated to the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography at the University of Oxford.

“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