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This book is about how water becomes people – or put another way, how people and water flow together and shape each other. While the focus of the book is on the relationships held between water and people, it also has a broader message about human relationships with the environment generally – a message that illustrates not only that people are existentially entangled with the material world, but that the materials of the world shape, determine and enable humans to be ‘humans’ in the ways that they are. Offering a selection of anthropological examples from Kenya, Wales and Spain to illustrate how water’s materiality co-productively generates the way people are able to engage with water, this book uses cross-disciplinary perspectives to provide and promote a new analytic – one that encourages ethical, holistic and sustainable relationships with the world around us. This approach challenges representations that ignore, sidestep or are blind to the fleshy materiality of being human, to encourage a re-imagining of the world advocating the acknowledgement of humanity as distinctly active-with and part of (rather than simply existing on) the fabric of the collection of materials we call planet Earth. (Provided by publisher)

Water and civilization. --- Water --- Water resources development. --- Energy development --- Natural resources --- Water-supply --- Hydrology --- Civilization and water --- Civilization --- Social aspects. --- #SBIB:39A4 --- Toegepaste antropologie

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This book takes a journey around the world to demonstrate how plants influence people's lives. From mealtimes to belief systems, from addictions to medical support, plants are instrumental in organising what people do, and what it means to be human. Plants Matter explores how plants and people live together. This is not only a book about the importance of plants and how people use them, but it argues also that knowing the world is achieved-with plants. In addition to populating the landscape, plants alter human physiology in multiple material ways, through gatherings or through sensorial conversations using the chemistry of taste, perfume, colour, sound and textures. The chapters gathered in this volume offer a range of interdisciplinary perspectives that use ethnographic and ethnobotanical information to explore how the behaviours and capacities of certain plants around the world have enticed, excited and even seduced people to pay attention.

Human-plant relationships. --- Plant diversity. --- Agriculture.