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  • Water Beings

    From Nature Worship to the Environmental Crisis

    de Veronica Strang ...
    Early human relationships with water were expressed through beliefs in serpentine aquatic deities: rainbow-coloured, feathered or horned serpents, giant anacondas and dragons. Representing the powers of water, these beings were bringers of life and sustenance, world creators, ancestors, guardian spirits and law makers. Worshipped and appeased, they embodied people’s respect for water and its vital ... Leer más

    $39.99 USD

  • Water

    Nature and Culture

    de Veronica Strang ...
    Series series Earth
    Water flows centrally through human lives, hydrating our bodies and all of the organic species on which we depend; sustaining the ecosystems we inhabit; and enabling our agricultural and technological developments. Throughout human history, water’s life-giving and destructive capacities have had powerful symbolic meanings for diverse cultures and societies. Water considers our relationship with ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • Gardening the World

    Agency, Identity and the Ownership of Water

    de Veronica Strang ...
    Around the world, intensifying development and human demands for fresh water are placing unsustainable pressures on finite resources. Countries are waging war over transboundary rivers, and rural and urban communities are increasingly divided as irrigation demands compete with domestic desires. Marginal groups are losing access to water as powerful elites protect their own interests, and entire ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • 水族：從自然崇拜到生態覺醒，重建人與水的神聖關係

    Water Beings: From Nature Worship to the Environmental Crisis

    de 維若妮卡．史特朗(Veronica Strang) ...
    Traducido por 劉泗翰 ...
    Series series 生態詩學Ecopoetics
    人類社會何以從崇拜水，逐步轉向對水系生態的奪取與破壞？我們該如何重建與水的親密關係？蜿蜒大地，攪動海洋，迴旋天地雲霧之間****⋯⋯水，以美麗易變的流動性流淌於世界「水族」是水的化身，自歷史暗流中湧動崛起召喚萬物有靈、神聖與互惠的精神力量人類曾經崇拜水，許多民族都有水神的神話與傳說。人們透過「蛇形水神」的信仰表達對水的崇敬：彩虹蛇、天蟒、長著羽毛的蛇神、逶迤大地的巨蟒、飛天遁地的雲龍⋯⋯「水族」（Water Beings）就是水的化身——祂們象徵了生命的起源和寄託，是世界的創造者與祖先，是自然的守護神也是立法者，維持所有生物的生命。祂們受到崇拜和安撫，體現了人們對水的尊重。★水與人類物質文明、精神與靈性的深刻聯繫水，不僅僅是一種物... ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • Uncommon Ground

    Landscape, Values and the Environment

    de Veronica Strang ...
    Series series Explorations in Anthropology
    - What makes people care about the environment? - Why and how do different cultural groups value land in different ways? With increasing international concern about green issues, and the apparent failure of mechanistic solutions to complex problems, Uncommon Ground provides a timely understanding of the cultural values that underpin human-environmental relations. Through a comparison of two very ... Leer más

    $54.99 USD

  • What Anthropologists Do

    de Veronica Strang ...
    What is Anthropology? Why should you study it? What will you learn? And what can you do with it? What Anthropologists Do answers all these questions. And more.Anthropology is an astonishingly diverse and engaged subject that seeks to understand human social behaviour. What Anthropologists Do presents a lively introduction to the ways in which anthropology's unique research methods and cutting-edge ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • The Meaning of Water

    de Veronica Strang ...
    Water is the most valuable resource and the most passionately contested. Drought has become an increasingly extreme problem in many parts of the world, and it is predicted that 60% of the major cities in Europe will run short of water in the next decade. In industrialized countries per capita water usage continues to rise intractably, despite strenuous efforts by environmentalists and resource ... Leer más

    $57.99 USD

  • What Anthropologists Do

    de Veronica Strang ...
    Why should you study anthropology? How will it enable you to understand human behaviour? And what will you learn that will equip you to enter working life?This book describes what studying anthropology actually means in practice, and explores the many career options available to those trained in anthropology. Anthropology gets under the surface of social and cultural diversity to understand people ... Leer más

    $54.99 USD

  • Ghosts of the Past

    de Deanna R. Sweeney ...
    Series Libro 2 - A Veronica Strange Story
    Ghosts of the Past takes the reader on a centuries old battle between the forces of good and evil. Throughout her life, including her previous lives, Veronica has lived a lonely existence, being outcast from her community for the special gifts she possesses. After centuries of pain from watching the few people she loved being killed before her very eyes, Veronica is determined to end this long ... Leer más

    $2.90 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Awakening

    A Veronica Strange Story

    de Deanna R. Sweeney ...
    Series Libro 1 - A Veronica Strange Story
    Veronica works as assistant manager at a spa resort in the little town she has lived in all her life. Recurrent, unexplained and otherworldly visions cause her to lead a lonely existence as experience has taught her that people tend to be suspicious of people who are different. Even her own mother treats her with indifference, and the only two people she has truly loved and trusted are both dead. ... Leer más

    $2.90 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Water, Scale and Materiality

    Anthropological Perspectives on Hydrosocial Relations

    Edición de Veronica Strang, Franz Krause ...
    Series Libro 36 - Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology
    Anthropology has an important role in articulating people’s engagements with water at different spatial and temporal scales, and in showing how local relationships with waterways and marine areas translate into larger anthropogenic impacts on regional and global ecosystems. This volume explores diverse relationships with waterbodies, and considers how these are expressed in art, material culture ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • Ownership and Appropriation

    Edición de Veronica Strang, Mark Busse ...
    Series series ASA Monographs
    In a world of finite resources, expanding populations and widening structural inequalities, the ownership of things is increasingly contested. Not only are the commons being rapidly enclosed and privatized, but the very idea of what can be owned is expanding, generating conflicts over the ownership of resources, ideas, culture, people, and even parts of people. Understanding processes of ownership ... Leer más

    $57.99 USD