Amphibious Anthropologies : Living in Wet Environments (Culture, Place, and Nature)

Camargo, Alejandro (EDT)/ Cortesi, Luisa (EDT)/ Krause, Franz (EDT)

University of Washington Press（2025/07発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 312 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780295753881
• DDC分類 304.2

Full Description

Muddying the divide between land and water

This interdisciplinary collection delves into the experiences and meanings of life in environments where water levels and availability are in constant flux. Amphibious Anthropologies brings together a global set of case studies, from Italy's historic marshes to the tidal pools of the Bahamas, to show how living with unpredictable wetness has become crucial in the age of climate crisis. The book introduces "amphibious anthropologies" as a framework to challenge the dichotomy of water and land and interrogate spaces marked by rapid and profound environmental change. It brings to light the everyday creativity and uncertainty in wet environments like California's Salton Sea and India's North Bihar floodplain. Engaging with disciplines like anthropology, geography, and STS, this work offers a timely discourse on environmental change and resilience.

Contents

Foreword by K. Sivaramakrishnan

Acknowledgments

Introduction, by Franz Krause, Luisa Cortesi, Alejandro Camargo

Part I. On the Brink

1. Postnatural Environmental Management in an Amphibious Delta: Hybridity, Performativity, and Indeterminacy at the Salton Sea, by Alida Cantor

2. Between Hydro and Geo: Amphibious Spaces of Social Exception, by Simone Popperl

3. The Shape of Waterland: A Geomorphoanthropological Commentary on Fluvial Infrastructures and Amphibious Environmental Knowledge, by Luisa Cortesi

Part II. In the Damp

4. Keeping the Land Wet: "Wet Lands" and the Rise of "Wetland Literacy" by Paolo Gruppuso

5. Situating Wetness in Soomaa, Estonia, by Franz Krause

6. The Hyporheic Imaginary in Multispecies Watershed Governance, How Beaver Collaborations Remix Patterns of Wet and Dry in Northern California Streams, by Cleo Woelfle-Hazard and Daniel Sarna-Wojcicki

Part III. Through the Muck

7. Restoring Wetlands in Alpine Ski Resorts: The Biopolitics of Water, Land, and Snow by Céline Granjou and Stéphanie Gaucherand

8. Muddy Waters: Governing the Littoral in Andros Island, The Bahamas, by Sarah Wise

9. The Contours of the Amphibious: Wetlands, Knowledge, and Politics in Colombia by Alejandro Camargo

Amphibious Epilogue, by Stuart McLean

List of Contributors

Index