Material things are not just passive recipients of human categories, meanings and values,
nor mere subjects of human agency. Their particular characteristics and behaviours are …

Are we now living in a new geological epoch called the Anthropocene? Geo-scientists
discuss whether there is a need for a new concept covering the last 250 years' immense …

Holy water has a central role in shaping the understanding and beliefs of holiness in
general, but how does holy water work, and what defines holy water? By analyzing holy …

Water gifts are a common strategy to satisfy water needs in the absence of sufficiently
performing water networks in Khartoum, but a widely ignored topic in urban political ecology …

The Christian religion is deeply imbued with the imagery of water, and water plays a central
role in its religious practices, not least in baptism. Yet the wider role of water in Christianity …

Water access issues pose continual problems for villages in arid areas of Rajasthan, India
and the common response has been technological solutions through water management …

The Nile is arguably the most famous river in the world. For millennia, the search for its
source defeated emperors and explorers. Yet the search for its source also contained a …

Veronica Strang has written an excellent account of the fluid relationships between humans
and the non-human materiality of water. The very idea of anthropology of water challenges …

The Nile River Basin supports the livelihoods of millions of people in Egypt, Ethiopia, Sudan,
South Sudan and Uganda, principally as water for agriculture and hydropower. The …

In the thirteenth century, the Dominican grammarian John of Genoa com-piled his Summa
Grammaticalis, also known as the Catholicon. 1 The treatise sketches out a lengthy …