Description |
1 online resource (237 pages) : illustrations, maps, photographs |
Series |
Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies |
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Routledge explorations in environmental studies.
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Contents |
1. Introduction -- 2. Water cosmologies -- 3. Watery histories -- 4. Water pathways -- 5. Challenging the moral order : water, kinship and war -- 6. Water relations : the embodied politics of ritual and irrigated rice production -- 7. Independence and the (re)negotiation of customary relations |
Summary |
As water resources diminish with increasing population and economic pressures as well as global climate change, this book addresses a subject of ever increasing local and global importance. In many areas water is not only a vital resource but is also endowed with an agency and power that connects people, spirit beings, place and space. The culmination of a decade of ethnographic research in Timor Leste, this book gives a critical account of the complex social and ecological specificities of a water-focused society in one of the world's newest nations. Comparatively framed by international exam |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 27, 2017) |
Subject |
Water-supply -- Social aspects -- Timor-Leste
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Water resources development -- Social aspects -- Timor-Leste
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Water rights -- Timor-Leste
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Water security -- Timor-Leste
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Water resources development -- Social aspects
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Water rights
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Water security
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Water-supply -- Social aspects
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Timor-Leste
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781315883250 |
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1315883252 |
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9781134680283 |
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1134680287 |
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9781134680429 |
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1134680422 |
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9781134680351 |
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113468035X |
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041571351X |
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9780415713511 |
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9780415385565 |
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0415385563 |
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