Amphibious Anthropologies
Living in Wet Environments
K Sivaramakrishnan editor Franz Krause editor Luisa Cortesi editor Alejandro Camargo editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:University of Washington Press
Published:29th Jul '25
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Muddying the divide between land and water
This interdisciplinary collection delves into the experiences and meanings of life in environments where water levels and availability are in constant flux. Amphibious Anthropologies brings together a global set of case studies, from Italy’s historic marshes to the tidal pools of the Bahamas, to show how living with unpredictable wetness has become crucial in the age of climate crisis. The book introduces “amphibious anthropologies” as a framework to challenge the dichotomy of water and land and interrogate spaces marked by rapid and profound environmental change. It brings to light the everyday creativity and uncertainty in wet environments like California’s Salton Sea and India’s North Bihar floodplain. Engaging with disciplines like anthropology, geography, and STS, this work offers a timely discourse on environmental change and resilience.
"The book presents insightful observations, conversations and case studies, showing the variety of forms that wet environments, and the life there, can take. It encourages readers to reject extreme binaries and imagine new ways of understanding the vibrant life in amphibious worlds."
* Nature *"[A] compelling collection . . . . Through the foregrounding of ethnographic accounts of living with wetness, the collection shifts focus between theoretical abstractions and the everyday negotiations through which people inhabit such worlds. This expands the conceptual repertoire for thinking with such environments, offering a grounded anthropology of the amphibious that is all at once ecological and political."
* Asian Journal of Social ScienISBN: 9780295753898
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 431g
312 pages