A History of Water: Series I, Volume 3: The World of Water

by Terje Tvedt, T. Ostigaard

Overview

This volume is the third of three that explore all aspects of water - social, cultural, political, religious, historical, economic and technological - from ancient times to the present day. The contributors examine the changing histories of water as a private or common good; the politics of water at local, urban, national and international level; water in cities; great river plans; dams; river biographies; and images of water in religion, myth, literature and art. Empirical and ethnographic case studies from around the world feature.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781850434474
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	12/20/2005
Pages:	528
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 1.12(d)

About the Author

Terje Tvedt is Professor of Geography at the University of Bergen and Professor of Political Science at the University of Oslo. He is the author of a number of successful books and videos on water issues, including The River Nile in the Age of the British (I.B.Tauris, 2004) and The River Nile in the Post-Colonial Age (I.B.Tauris 2009). He is series editor for the first History of Water series (3 volumes, I.B.Tauris, 2006). Terje Oestigaard is Research Fellow at the Centre for Development Studies at the University of Bergen. He has undertaken fieldwork in Bangladesh, Greece, Jordan, India, Nepal and Palestine and is the author of a number of books including (as co-editor) The Materiality of Death. Bodies, Burials, Beliefs (2008) and The World of Water (I.B.Tauris, 2006).

Table of Contents

VOLUME III: Culture and Control * Commons or Commodity
• Water in the Age of Imperialism and Beyond--D. Worster
• From Sacred Ownership to Colonial Commons: Water Tenure Systems in the Laupala Valley of Central Africa--D. Gordon
• Changing Narratives of Water Control in Oahu, Hawai'I--K.A. Berry
• Limitations to 'Indigenous People Participation': Conflict in Water Use in an African Mining Economy--F.A. Akiwumi
• Symbols of Power
• Powering the Nation: A Social History of Hydro-Electricity in Ireland--M. Maguire
• The Power of the Disappearance: Water and the Jerid in Tunisia--V. Battesti
• Water as a Symbol of Power: A Study of the Hydraulic System of Golkonda Hyederabad--W.Y. Chii
• Water As Hierarchy and Structuring Principle
• Water, Hindu Mythology and an Unequal Social Order in India--D. Joshi & B. Fawcett
• Unity and Abstraction: Ethics and Modernity in the Technology of the American New Deal--B. Black
• An Evolutionary History of Water Rights in South Asia--D.D.Tewari
• Water Culture, Ethnic Tradition and Sustainable Development of the Tai Peoples of China--Z.X. Yun
• Cultural Vehicles and Cases of Man-Water Relations in Rural India--A. Damodaran
• Knowledge of Water
• Early Development in Groundwater Research in the Netherlands--J.J. De Vries
• River Works in Famine Ireland--J.C.I. Dooge * Understanding and Conceptualising Water * Water As Text and Meaning
• Rivers As Texts: From Pre-Modern to Post-Modern Understandings of Development, Technology and the Environment--J. Manore
• Construction of Meaning For 'Water' in Japanese Cultures and Politics--M. Mervio
• Constructing a Myth of Purity: The Marketing of Welsh Water--O. Roberts
• Perceptions of Safe Water--E.M. Rinne
• Water in Literature and Art
• 'Of Frogs' Eyes and Cows' Drinking Water': Water in the Lives of the Kabras of Western Kenya--V.K. Inviolata
• Water Symbolism in Kiswahili Literary Works--W. Nabea
• The Water-Side Dwellers Sleep Thirsting: Cultural Interpretations of Water Form in a Rural Community--F.K. Lukalo
• The Pastoral, the Monumental and What Lies in Between: Images of Dams and Riperian Landscape--D.C. Jackson
• Water Images in Latin American Cinema: The Case of f0Fernando Solanas--J. Askeland & A. Ramirez
• Water in Religion and Mythology
• A Christian Perspective on Water and Water Rights--A. Armstrong & M. Armstrong
• Highlights on River Cult and Management Practices in Ancient India--J. James
• Rainmaking and Life-Giving Waters
• Science in the Social Sphere: Weather Modification and Public Response--S. Matthewman
• River and Rain: Life-Giving Waters in Nepalese Death Rituals--T. Ostigard
• 'The Wealth of These Nations': Rain, Rulers and Religion on the Cuvelai Floodplain--M. Mckittrick
• The Lozi Flood Tradition--C.M. Nemafe