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Everywhere in the world communities and nations organize themselves in relation to water. We divert water from rivers, lakes, and aquifers to our homes, workplaces, irrigation canals, and hydro-generating stations. We use it for bathing, swimming, recreation, and it functions as a symbol of purity in ritual performances. In order to facilitate and manage our relationship with water, we develop institutions, technologies, and cultural practices entirely devoted to its appropriation and distribution, and through these institutions we construct relations of class, gender, ethnicity, and nationality. Relying on first-hand ethnographic research, the contributors to this volume examine the social life of water in diverse settings and explore the impacts of commodification, urbanization, and technology on the availability and quality of water supplies. Each case study speaks to a local set of issues, but the overall perspective is global, with representation from all continents.

Water-Economic aspects. --- Water-Social aspects. --- Water-Symbolic aspects. --- Water --- Eau --- Social aspects. --- Symbolic aspects. --- Economic aspects. --- Aspect social --- Aspect symbolique --- Aspect économique

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"We all know what water is, and we often take it for granted. But the spectre of a worldwide water crisis suggests there might be something fundamentally wrong with the way we think about water. Jamie Linton dives into the history of water as an abstract concept, stripped of its environmental, social, and cultural contexts. Reduced to a scientific abstraction--to mere H[subscript 2]O--this concept has given modern society licence to dam, divert, and manipulate water with apparent impunity. Part of the solution to the water crisis involves reinvesting water with social content, thus altering the way we see water. What Is Water? offers a fresh approach to a fundamental problem."--BOOK JACKET.

Water --- Hydrologic cycle --- History --- Environmental aspects --- Social aspects --- Water. --- Hydrologic cycle. --- Eau. --- Cycle hydrologique. --- Eau --- History. --- Environmental aspects. --- Social aspects. --- Histoire. --- Aspect de l'environnement. --- Aspect social. --- Whitman College --- Memorial bookplates --- Class of 1940. --- Water - History --- Water - Environmental aspects --- Water - Social aspects

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"This book restores the fountains of Roman Byzantium, Byzantine Constantinople and Ottoman Istanbul, reviving the sounds, shapes, smells and sights of past water cultures. Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine and Ottoman Empires, is surrounded on three sides by sea, and has no major river to deliver clean, potable water. However, the cultures that thrived in this remarkable waterscape through millennia have developed and sustained diverse water cultures and a water delivery system that has supported countless fountains, some of which survive today. Scholars address the delivery system that conveyed and stored water, and the fountains, large and small, from which it gushed. Papers consider spring water, rainwater and seawater; water suitable for drinking, bathing and baptism; and fountains real, imagined and symbolic. Experts in the history of art and culture, archaeology and theology, and poetry and prose, offer reflections on water and fountains across two millennia in one location. The first study of water culture and fountains in Byzantium. Presents Byzantine material in a longer chronology, across several disciplines, embracing late Roman material as well as Ottoman material. Includes work from established names in the field as well as new voices."--Publisher's website

Water --- Fountains --- Monuments --- Landscape architecture --- Social aspects --- History. --- History --- Byzantine Empire --- Istanbul (Turkey) --- Byzantine antiquities. --- Empire byzantin --- Istanbul (Turquie) --- Social life and customs. --- Antiquities. --- Moeurs et coutumes --- Antiquités --- Eau --- Fontaines --- Architecture du paysage --- Antiquités byzantines --- Aspect social --- Histoire --- Antiquités byzantines --- Antiquités --- Byzantine antiquities --- Social life and customs --- Antiquities --- Water - Social aspects - Byzantine Empire - History --- Water - Social aspects - Turkey - Istanbul - History - To 1500 --- Fountains - Byzantine Empire - History --- Fountains - Turkey - Istanbul - History - To 1500 --- Monuments - Byzantine Empire - History --- Landscape architecture - Byzantine Empire - History --- Byzance --- Byzantine Empire - Social life and customs --- Istanbul (Turkey) - Social life and customs --- Istanbul (Turkey) - Antiquities --- Garden fountains --- Hydraulic structures --- Water in landscape architecture --- Nymphaea (Architecture) --- Hydrology --- Historical monuments --- Architecture --- Sculpture --- Historic sites --- Memorials --- Public sculpture --- Statues --- Antiquities, Byzantine --- Christian antiquities --- Horticultural service industry --- Landscape gardening --- Landscaping industry --- Stamboul (Turkey) --- Stampōl (Turkey) --- Stambul (Turkey) --- Stěmpol (Turkey) --- T︠S︡arigrad (Turkey) --- Istāmbūl (Turkey) --- T︠S︡arʹgrad (Turkey) --- Āsitānah (Turkey) --- Ḳushṭa (Turkey) --- İstanbul Büyük Şehir Belediyesi (Turkey) --- Greater Istanbul Municipality (Turkey) --- İstanbul Anakent Belediyesi (Turkey) --- İstanbul Büyükşehir Belediyesi (Turkey) --- Polē (Turkey) --- Estambul (Turkey) --- Baladīyat Isṭānbūl (Turkey) --- Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality (Turkey) --- Constantinople --- Bajo Imperio --- Bizancjum --- Bizantia --- Byzantinē Autokratoria --- Byzantium (Empire) --- Impero bizantino --- Vizantii︠a︡ --- Vyzantinē Autokratoria --- Vyzantinon Kratos

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Water, in its many guises, has always played a powerful role in shaping Southeast Asian histories, cultures, societies and economies. This volume, the rewritten results of an international workshop, with participants from eight countries, contains thirteen essays, representing a broad range of approaches to the study of Southeast Asia with water as the central theme. As it was exposed to the sea, the region was more accessible to outside political, economic and cultural influences than many landlocked areas. Easy access through sea routes also stimulated trade from an early age. However, the same easy access made Southeast Asia vulnerable to political control by strong outsiders. The sea is, moreover, a source of food, but also of many hazards. At the same time, Southeast Asian societies and cultures are confronted with and permeated by 'water from heaven' in the form of rain, flash floods, irrigation water, water in rivers, brooks and swaps, water-driven power plants, and pumped or piped water, in addition to water as a carrier of sewage and pollution. Finally, the volume deals with the role of water in classification systems, beliefs, myths, illness and healing. Full Text (Open Access)

Ecohydrology -- Southeast Asia -- History. --- Water -- Pollution -- Southeast Asia. --- Water -- Social aspects -- Southeast Asia. --- Water in agriculture -- Southeast Asia. --- Ecohydrology --- Water --- Water in agriculture --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Ecology --- History --- Social aspects --- Pollution --- History. --- Eco-hydrology --- Hydrology --- Agriculture --- Water-supply, Agricultural --- Water-supply, Rural --- Aquatic ecology --- Ecohydrology. --- Water in agriculture. --- Pollution. --- Social aspects. --- Southeast Asia. --- Aquatic pollution --- Fresh water --- Freshwater pollution --- Inland water pollution --- Lake pollution --- Lakes --- Reservoirs --- River pollution --- Rivers --- Stream pollution --- Water contamination --- Water pollutants --- Waste disposal in rivers, lakes, etc. --- Asia, Southeast --- Asia, Southeastern --- South East Asia --- Southeastern Asia --- rain --- fishery --- regen --- geschiedenis --- indonesie --- ziektes --- zee --- visserij --- philippines --- history --- indonesia --- piraterij --- cosmologie --- southeast asia --- water irrigatie systemen --- philipijnen --- watervoorraad --- rivieren --- malaysia --- water supply --- rivers --- cosmology --- piracy --- sea --- water pollution --- water --- water irrigation systems --- diseases --- maleisie --- watervervuiling --- Indonesia --- Irrigation --- Southeast Asia