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Water Beings
From Nature Worship to the Environmental Crisis
Buch von Veronica Strang
Sprache: Englisch

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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.
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. Her previous books include Water: Nature and Culture, also published by Reaktion Books.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Fachbereich: Grenzwissenschaften
Produktart: Nachschlagewerke
Rubrik: Esoterik & Anthroposophie
Medium: Buch
Seiten: 280
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9781789146882
ISBN-10: 1789146887
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Strang, Veronica
Hersteller: Reaktion Books
Maße: 254 x 194 x 26 mm
Von/Mit: Veronica Strang
Erscheinungsdatum: 20.03.2023
Gewicht: 1,102 kg
preigu-id: 125623915
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. Her previous books include Water: Nature and Culture, also published by Reaktion Books.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Fachbereich: Grenzwissenschaften
Produktart: Nachschlagewerke
Rubrik: Esoterik & Anthroposophie
Medium: Buch
Seiten: 280
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9781789146882
ISBN-10: 1789146887
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Strang, Veronica
Hersteller: Reaktion Books
Maße: 254 x 194 x 26 mm
Von/Mit: Veronica Strang
Erscheinungsdatum: 20.03.2023
Gewicht: 1,102 kg
preigu-id: 125623915
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