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History of Water, A, Series II, Volume 1 Ideas of Water from Ancient Societies to the Modern World

Tvedt Terje Oestigard T.
Innbundet / 2009 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9781845119805
Publisert
2009-10-30
Utgiver
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
UP, UU, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
496

Redaktør
Tvedt Terje
Oestigard T.

Biografisk notat

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 films 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).

History of Water, A, Series II, Volume 1 Ideas of Water from Ancient Societies to the Modern World

Tvedt Terje Oestigard T.
Innbundet / 2009 / Engelsk
Tvedt Terje Oestigard T.
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How has water been perceived in different societies and across different eras of world history? How have these changing conceptions informed and influenced our ideas about society and ourselves? In "The Idea of Water" leading international scholars explore the rich record of our ideas, from the beliefs of early societies to the latest scientific views on the nature of this unique substance. Ranging across all aspects - scientific, cultural and religious - this important work both challenges conventional interpretations and understanding of water in nature and represents one of the first attempts to provide a history of our changing conceptions of the role and significance of water in human society.
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How has water been perceived in different societies and across different eras of world history? How have these changing conceptions informed and influenced our ideas about society and ourselves? This title challenges conventional interpretations and understanding of water in nature.
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Chapter 1: A History of the Ideas of Water: Deconstructing Nature and Constructing Society Terje Tvedt & Terje Oestigaard Part 1 From Big Bang to the Hydrological cycle Chapter 2: Water and Cosmos Robert Kandel Chapter 3: Water in Science and Scientific Discovery Philip Ball Chapter 4: Water and the Development of the Concept of Chemical Substance Paul Needham Chapter 5: Water, its flux, its cycle, and its power: the romantic turning point in the history of the water idea Rodney Farnsworth Part 2 From Roman Aqueducts to Modern Spas Chapter 6: Aqueduct as Hegemonic Architecture Rina Faletti Chapter 7: Social Uses of Water in the Ancient Mediterranean Garrett G. Fagan Chapter 8: The Rule of Water: Uncertainty and the Cultural Ecology of Water in South India David Mosse Chapter 9: Water and Sanitation from Antiquity to Today Petri S. Juuti and Henry Nygård Chapter 10: Cultural Ideas of Water and Swimming in Modern Europe Susan C. Anderson Part 3 From Judaism and Islam to the Maya water cosmology Chapter 11: Bathing in Divine Waters: Water and Purity in Judaism and Islam Francesca de Châtel Chapter 12: Purification, Purgation and Penalty: Christian Concepts of Water and Fire in Heaven and Hell Terje Oestigaard Chapter 13: Hydrolatry in early European religions and Christian syncretism: Dieter Gerten Chapter 14: Water in Aboriginal Australia Veronica Strang Chapter 15: “Rain, snakes and sex - making rain”: Rock art and rain-making in Africa and America Tore Sætersdal Chapter 16: Shaping Beliefs, Identities and Institutions: the Role of Water Myths among Ethnic Groups in Yunnan of China Zheng Xiao Yun Chapter 17: Flood Myths Wendy Doniger Chapter 18: Water Cosmoview and Symbolism in the Mesoamerican and Peruvian Area in the pre-Hispanic period José Luis Martínez Ruiz, Daniel Murillo Licea & Jorge Martínez Ruiz
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How has water been perceived in different societies and across different eras of world history? How have these changing conceptions informed and influenced our ideas about society and ourselves? This title challenges conventional interpretations and understanding of water in nature.
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781845119805
Publisert
2009-10-30
Utgiver
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
UP, UU, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
496

Redaktør
Tvedt Terje
Oestigard T.

Biografisk notat

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 films 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).

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