Cultural Anthropology

Virtual Issue: Water

Virtual Issue: WATER

Cultural Anthropology is pleased to announce a virtual issue on Water. Humans encounter water no matter where we live and work. It trickles across forest floors and consolidates in rivers. It collects behind dams, runs under cities, and is diverted into irrigation systems. It is pumped from wells and travels in plastic bottles. It makes up our bodies and shapes our institutions. This virtual issue brings together five articles published in Cultural Anthropology between 1999 and 2009. Collectively, these articles and interviews provide a window for exploring the varied manner in which cultural anthropologists have engaged water in recent years and suggest exciting future directions. But the issue also points to the unique theoretical and empirical contributions anthropologists might make to the study of water and, in turn, how water as an object of study might reorient the discipline.

Stories and Cosmogonies: Imagining Creativity Beyond "Nature" and "Culture
STUART McLEAN

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The Allure of the Transnational: Notes on Some Aspects of the Political Economy of Water in India
ANANTHAKRISHNAN AIYER

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Fijian Water in Fiji and New York: Local Politics and a Global Commodity
MARTHA KAPLAN

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Third Nature: Making Space and Time in the Great
DAVID McDERMOTT HUGHES

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"Local Theory": Nature and the Making of an Amazonian Place
HUGH RAFFLES

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