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We invite abstract submissions for this panel at the 11th
International Congress
of the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF).
<http://www.siefhome.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=195&Itemid=82>
http://www.siefhome.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=195&Itemid=82
The conference theme is "Circulation", and this panel scrutinises the
metaphors, enactments and socio-material assemblages of the "hydrological
cycle" (see below).
The Call for Papers closes on January 18th.
The hydrological cycle: thinking relationships through water
Please submit your paper abstract following this link
http://www.nomadit.co.uk/sief/sief2013/panels.php5?PanelID=2258
Convenors
Franz Krause (Tallinn University)
Jeanne Féaux de la Croix (Zentrum Moderner Orient)
Short Abstract
This panel explores how social relationships are intertwined with the
circulation of water. It aims at highlighting the water-related aspects of
circulation, as well as the circulatory and connecting aspects of dealing
with water.
Long Abstract
Conceptualizing one of the discipline's core ideas, 'exchange',
anthropologists have developed the metaphor of 'circulation' to account
both for the necessity of giving and receiving in the forging of social
relationships, and for the making of communities, hierarchies, enemies and
taboos in the process. This is evident not only in Mauss's observations
regarding the gift, but also in Malinowski's Kula Ring and the Bohannans'
spheres of Tiv exchange.
Recent developments in anthropological theory have re-emphasized the
material aspects of social and cultural life. Strang and others have
demonstrated that in particular water is widely regarded as a cultural and
material instantiation of relationships. Likewise in human geography, a
number of studies have investigated the role of water in shaping
communities and political struggles. Framing water and water networks as a
socio-natural 'cyborg', Linton proposes to replace the concept of the
hydrological cycle with that of the 'hydrosocial cycle' as the latter more
clearly emphasizes human engagement in the dynamics of water in the
landscape.
This panel explores how social relationships are intertwined with the
circulation of water. It aims at highlighting the water-related aspects of
circulation, as well as the circulatory and connecting aspects of dealing
with water. How are water provision and sewage systems constitutive and
indicative of social relations? What role does water itself play in
conflicts over water management, e.g. along rivers, on lakes and in
wetlands? And how is the hydrological - or 'hydrosocial' - cycle invoked
and utilized by conflicting actors?
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