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.

• 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

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