Waterworlds

WaterworldsIn one form or another, water participates in the making and unmaking of peoples lives, practices, and stories. Contributors detailed ethnographic work analyzes the union and mutual shaping of water and social lives. This volume discusses current ecological disturbances and engages in a world where unbounded relationalities and unsettled frames of orientation mark the lives of all, anthropologists included. Water emerges as a fluid object in more

The individual essays are concise and well written and arranged in such a way that it is easy for instructors to assign them around themes of their own choosing

The author analyses the manifold changes to the system of the disposal of the dead in East Germany—a society that not only had to negotiate the upheaval of military defeat but also urbanization

to probe the profession and various threats to its viability

The Flying Inn is a daring piece of speculative fiction that uses satire to balance its more serious elements

Chase simply wishes to sell the place and get on with his life

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a looming energy crisis

when we find the Holocaust invoked in unexpected places and in relation to other events

and Aaron’s eyes are opened to social and political problems he had never considered

and he reviews explanations that previous scholars have offered for the presence and consequences of evil

this book gives voice to both Jewish and non-Jewish women writers from German-speaking countries who were silenced during the Nazi years

to establishing Golden Rice as an additional VAD intervention