Kirsten Hastrup is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Copenhagen. She received an ERC Advanced Grant in 2008, enabling the collaborative research project Waterworlds (2009-2014). Among her publications are three monographs based on her work on long-term natural and social histories in Iceland. Since then she has worked in Greenland and published many edited volumes such as Anthropology and Nature (2014).

• PrefaceIntroduction: Waterworlds at LargeKirsten Hastrup and Frida HastrupChapter 1. East Anglian Fenland: Water, the Work of Imagination, and the Creation of ValueRichard D. G. IrvineChapter 2. Fluid Entitlements: Constructing and Contesting Water Allocations in Burkina Faso, West AfricaBen Orlove, Carla Roncoli, and Brian Dowd-UribeChapter 3. Raining in the Andes: Disrupted Seasonal and Hydrological CyclesAstrid B. StensrudChapter 4. Respect and Passion in a Lagoon in the South PacificCecilie RubowChapter 5. West African Waterworlds: Narratives of Absence versus Narratives of ExcessMette Fog Olwig and Laura Vang RasmussenChapter 6. To the Lighthouse: Making a Liveable World by the Bay of BengalFrida HastrupChapter 7. Enacting Groundwaters in Tarawa, Kiribati: Searching for Facts and Articulating ConcernsMaria Louise Bønnelykke RobertsonChapter 8. Mapping Urban Waters: Grounds and Figures on an Ethnographic Water PathAstrid Oberborbeck AndersenChapter 9. Water Literacy in the Sahel: Understanding Rain and Ground WaterAnette ReenbergChapter 10. Deep Time and Shallow Waters: Configurations of an Irrigation Channel in the AndesMattias Borg RasmussenChapter 11. Moral Valves and Fluid Properties: Water Regulation Mechanisms in the Bâdia of Southeastern MauritaniaChristian ViumChapter 12. Reflecting Nature: Water Beings in History and ImaginationVeronica StrangChapter 13. The North Water: Life on the Ice Edge in the High ArcticKirsten HastrupNotes on Contributors

“This collection is a rich quarry of manifold explorations of malleable, multiple, and vital waters in social and cultural life, which are always simultaneously a matter of concern for various political actions, and expressive of their own agentive capacities. Despite – or perhaps because of – the multiplicity of waters and approaches, it can be regarded as an asset to have these contributions combined in one book.” · Anthropos“…anthropology is not a newcomer to the study of water as an object and agent of social organization and cultural imagining, and the current volume introduces the reader to a good deal of this literature. But it also makes an original contribution by assembling a quantity of ethnographic cases and applying the anthropological perspective to issues of knowledge, management, and morality. The collected ethnographies illustrate, to quote Lévi-Strauss, that water is not only good to drink but good to think.” · Anthropology Review Database“A superb book, the chapters provide a wide range of approaches, from excellent descriptive ethnography to hard-hitting critiques of development practice. Water’s qualities provide a common theme and inspire groundbreaking theory.” · Marc Brightman, University College London

Kirsten Hastrup is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Copenhagen. She received an ERC Advanced Grant in 2008, enabling the collaborative research project Waterworlds (2009-2014). Among her publications are three monographs based on her work on long-term natural and social histories in Iceland. Since then she has worked in Greenland and published many edited volumes such as Anthropology and Nature (2014).

• PrefaceIntroduction: Waterworlds at LargeKirsten Hastrup and Frida HastrupChapter 1. East Anglian Fenland: Water, the Work of Imagination, and the Creation of ValueRichard D. G. IrvineChapter 2. Fluid Entitlements: Constructing and Contesting Water Allocations in Burkina Faso, West AfricaBen Orlove, Carla Roncoli, and Brian Dowd-UribeChapter 3. Raining in the Andes: Disrupted Seasonal and Hydrological CyclesAstrid B. StensrudChapter 4. Respect and Passion in a Lagoon in the South PacificCecilie RubowChapter 5. West African Waterworlds: Narratives of Absence versus Narratives of ExcessMette Fog Olwig and Laura Vang RasmussenChapter 6. To the Lighthouse: Making a Liveable World by the Bay of BengalFrida HastrupChapter 7. Enacting Groundwaters in Tarawa, Kiribati: Searching for Facts and Articulating ConcernsMaria Louise Bønnelykke RobertsonChapter 8. Mapping Urban Waters: Grounds and Figures on an Ethnographic Water PathAstrid Oberborbeck AndersenChapter 9. Water Literacy in the Sahel: Understanding Rain and Ground WaterAnette ReenbergChapter 10. Deep Time and Shallow Waters: Configurations of an Irrigation Channel in the AndesMattias Borg RasmussenChapter 11. Moral Valves and Fluid Properties: Water Regulation Mechanisms in the Bâdia of Southeastern MauritaniaChristian ViumChapter 12. Reflecting Nature: Water Beings in History and ImaginationVeronica StrangChapter 13. The North Water: Life on the Ice Edge in the High ArcticKirsten HastrupNotes on Contributors

“This collection is a rich quarry of manifold explorations of malleable, multiple, and vital waters in social and cultural life, which are always simultaneously a matter of concern for various political actions, and expressive of their own agentive capacities. Despite – or perhaps because of – the multiplicity of waters and approaches, it can be regarded as an asset to have these contributions combined in one book.” · Anthropos“…anthropology is not a newcomer to the study of water as an object and agent of social organization and cultural imagining, and the current volume introduces the reader to a good deal of this literature. But it also makes an original contribution by assembling a quantity of ethnographic cases and applying the anthropological perspective to issues of knowledge, management, and morality. The collected ethnographies illustrate, to quote Lévi-Strauss, that water is not only good to drink but good to think.” · Anthropology Review Database“A superb book, the chapters provide a wide range of approaches, from excellent descriptive ethnography to hard-hitting critiques of development practice. Water’s qualities provide a common theme and inspire groundbreaking theory.” · Marc Brightman, University College London

Kirsten Hastrup is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Copenhagen. She received an ERC Advanced Grant in 2008, enabling the collaborative research project Waterworlds (2009-2014). Among her publications are three monographs based on her work on long-term natural and social histories in Iceland. Since then she has worked in Greenland and published many edited volumes such as Anthropology and Nature (2014).

• PrefaceIntroduction: Waterworlds at LargeKirsten Hastrup and Frida HastrupChapter 1. East Anglian Fenland: Water, the Work of Imagination, and the Creation of ValueRichard D. G. IrvineChapter 2. Fluid Entitlements: Constructing and Contesting Water Allocations in Burkina Faso, West AfricaBen Orlove, Carla Roncoli, and Brian Dowd-UribeChapter 3. Raining in the Andes: Disrupted Seasonal and Hydrological CyclesAstrid B. StensrudChapter 4. Respect and Passion in a Lagoon in the South PacificCecilie RubowChapter 5. West African Waterworlds: Narratives of Absence versus Narratives of ExcessMette Fog Olwig and Laura Vang RasmussenChapter 6. To the Lighthouse: Making a Liveable World by the Bay of BengalFrida HastrupChapter 7. Enacting Groundwaters in Tarawa, Kiribati: Searching for Facts and Articulating ConcernsMaria Louise Bønnelykke RobertsonChapter 8. Mapping Urban Waters: Grounds and Figures on an Ethnographic Water PathAstrid Oberborbeck AndersenChapter 9. Water Literacy in the Sahel: Understanding Rain and Ground WaterAnette ReenbergChapter 10. Deep Time and Shallow Waters: Configurations of an Irrigation Channel in the AndesMattias Borg RasmussenChapter 11. Moral Valves and Fluid Properties: Water Regulation Mechanisms in the Bâdia of Southeastern MauritaniaChristian ViumChapter 12. Reflecting Nature: Water Beings in History and ImaginationVeronica StrangChapter 13. The North Water: Life on the Ice Edge in the High ArcticKirsten HastrupNotes on Contributors

“This collection is a rich quarry of manifold explorations of malleable, multiple, and vital waters in social and cultural life, which are always simultaneously a matter of concern for various political actions, and expressive of their own agentive capacities. Despite – or perhaps because of – the multiplicity of waters and approaches, it can be regarded as an asset to have these contributions combined in one book.” · Anthropos“…anthropology is not a newcomer to the study of water as an object and agent of social organization and cultural imagining, and the current volume introduces the reader to a good deal of this literature. But it also makes an original contribution by assembling a quantity of ethnographic cases and applying the anthropological perspective to issues of knowledge, management, and morality. The collected ethnographies illustrate, to quote Lévi-Strauss, that water is not only good to drink but good to think.” · Anthropology Review Database“A superb book, the chapters provide a wide range of approaches, from excellent descriptive ethnography to hard-hitting critiques of development practice. Water’s qualities provide a common theme and inspire groundbreaking theory.” · Marc Brightman, University College London