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History of Water, A, Series II, Volume 1 Ideas of Water from Ancient Societies to the Modern World

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Produktdetails

Einband

Gebundene Ausgabe

Erscheinungsdatum

09.10.2009

Herausgeber

Terje Tvedt + weitere

Verlag

Bloomsbury Academic

Seitenzahl

498

Maße (L/B/H)

23,4/15,6/2,7 cm

Gewicht

871 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-1-84511-980-5

Beschreibung

Produktdetails

Einband

Gebundene Ausgabe

Erscheinungsdatum

09.10.2009

Herausgeber

Verlag

Bloomsbury Academic

Seitenzahl

498

Maße (L/B/H)

23,4/15,6/2,7 cm

Gewicht

871 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-1-84511-980-5

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  • Produktbild: History of Water, A, Series II, Volume 1
  • Produktbild: History of Water, A, Series II, Volume 1

  • Chapter 1: A History of the Ideas of Water:
    Deconstructing Nature and Constructing Society
    Terje Tvedt & Terje Oestigaard

    Part 1
    From Big Bang to the Hydrological cycle

    Chapter 2: Water and Cosmos
    Robert Kandel
    Chapter 3: Water in Science and Scientific Discovery
    Philip Ball
    Chapter 4: Water and the Development of the Concept of Chemical Substance
    Paul Needham
    Chapter 5: Water, its flux, its cycle, and its power: the romantic turning point in the history of the water idea
    Rodney Farnsworth

    Part 2
    From Roman Aqueducts to Modern Spas

    Chapter 6: Aqueduct as Hegemonic Architecture
    Rina Faletti
    Chapter 7: Social Uses of Water in the Ancient Mediterranean
    Garrett G. Fagan
    Chapter 8: The Rule of Water: Uncertainty and the Cultural Ecology of Water in South India
    David Mosse
    Chapter 9: Water and Sanitation from Antiquity to Today
    Petri S. Juuti and Henry Nygård
    Chapter 10: Cultural Ideas of Water and Swimming in Modern Europe
    Susan C. Anderson

    Part 3
    From Judaism and Islam to the Maya water cosmology

    Chapter 11: Bathing in Divine Waters: Water and Purity in Judaism and Islam
    Francesca de Châtel
    Chapter 12: Purification, Purgation and Penalty: Christian Concepts of Water and Fire in Heaven and Hell
    Terje Oestigaard
    Chapter 13: Hydrolatry in early European religions and Christian syncretism:
    Dieter Gerten
    Chapter 14: Water in Aboriginal Australia
    Veronica Strang
    Chapter 15: "Rain, snakes and sex - making rain":
    Rock art and rain-making in Africa and America
    Tore Sætersdal
    Chapter 16: Shaping Beliefs, Identities and Institutions: the Role of Water Myths among Ethnic Groups in Yunnan of China
    Zheng Xiao Yun
    Chapter 17: Flood Myths
    Wendy Doniger
    Chapter 18: Water Cosmoview and Symbolism in the Mesoamerican and Peruvian Area in the pre-Hispanic period
    José Luis Martínez Ruiz, Daniel Murillo Licea & Jorge Martínez Ruiz