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).

Preface

Introduction: Waterworlds at Large
Kirsten Hastrup and Frida Hastrup

Chapter 1. East Anglian Fenland: Water, the Work of Imagination, and the Creation of Value
Richard D. G. Irvine

Chapter 2. Fluid Entitlements: Constructing and Contesting Water Allocations in Burkina Faso, West Africa
Ben Orlove, Carla Roncoli, and Brian Dowd-Uribe

Chapter 3. Raining in the Andes: Disrupted Seasonal and Hydrological Cycles
Astrid B. Stensrud

Chapter 4. Respect and Passion in a Lagoon in the South Pacific
Cecilie Rubow

Chapter 5. West African Waterworlds: Narratives of Absence versus Narratives of Excess
Mette Fog Olwig and Laura Vang Rasmussen

Chapter 6. To the Lighthouse: Making a Liveable World by the Bay of Bengal
Frida Hastrup

Chapter 7. Enacting Groundwaters in Tarawa, Kiribati: Searching for Facts and Articulating Concerns
Maria Louise Bønnelykke Robertson

Chapter 8. Mapping Urban Waters: Grounds and Figures on an Ethnographic Water Path
Astrid Oberborbeck Andersen

Chapter 9. Water Literacy in the Sahel: Understanding Rain and Ground Water
Anette Reenberg

Chapter 10. Deep Time and Shallow Waters: Configurations of an Irrigation Channel in the Andes
Mattias Borg Rasmussen

Chapter 11. Moral Valves and Fluid Properties: Water Regulation Mechanisms in the Bâdia of Southeastern Mauritania
Christian Vium

Chapter 12. Reflecting Nature: Water Beings in History and Imagination
Veronica Strang

Chapter 13. The North Water: Life on the Ice Edge in the High Arctic
Kirsten Hastrup

Notes on Contributors