Veronica Strang: Water Beings | Buch

Cover: 9781789146882 | Water Beings | From Nature Worship to the Environmental Crisis | Buch

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Beschreibung

Looking to the vast human history of water worship, a crucial study of our broken relationship with all things aquatic--and how we might mend it. Early human relationships with water were expressed through beliefs in serpentine aquatic deities: rainbow-colored, 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 lawmakers. Worshipped and appeased, they embodied people's respect for water and its vital role in sustaining all living things. Yet today, though we still recognize that "water is life," fresh- and saltwater ecosystems have been critically compromised by human activities. This major study of water beings and what has happened to them in different cultural and historical contexts demonstrates how and why some--but not all--societies have moved from worshipping water to wreaking havoc upon it and asks what we can do to turn the tide.

Über den Autor

Veronica Strang is a cultural anthropologist affiliated with Durham University and Oxford University as well as a fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. She is the author of many books, including What Anthropologists Do and Gardening the World.

Erscheinungsjahr:	2023
Fachbereich:	Volkskunde
Genre:	Importe
Produktart:	Nachschlagewerke
Rubrik:	Völkerkunde
Medium:	Buch
Inhalt:	Einband - fest (Hardcover)
ISBN-13:	9781789146882
ISBN-10:	1789146887
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Strang, Veronica
Hersteller:	Reaktion Books
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	254 x 194 x 26 mm
Von/Mit:	Veronica Strang
Erscheinungsdatum:	04.05.2023
Gewicht:	1,102 kg

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