Delta Life

Franz Krause is an anthropologist interested in the role of water in society and culture. He works as Junior Research Group Leader of the DELTA project at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology and the Global South Studies Center, University of Cologne, Germany.

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Acknowledgements



Introduction: Life at Water’s Edge

Franz Krause and Mark Harris



Chapter 1. Displacing the Delta: Notes on the Anthropology of the Earth’s Physical Features

Tanya Richardson



Chapter 2. The Global Swamp. Or, the Amphibious as a Figure of Heterotopia

Lukas Ley



Chapter 3. Stagnation: Waterflows and the Politics of Stranded Matter in La Mojana, Colombia

Alejandro Camargo



Chapter 4. Economy, Identity and Hydrology: Toward a Holistic Approach to Intersecting Volatilities in the Mackenzie Delta, Canada

Franz Krause



Chapter 5. ‘This Tide Will Be a Good Tide’: On Movement, Anticipative Waiting and Tricking on the Islands of the Parnaíba Delta, Brazil

Nora Horisberger



Chapter 6. Gleaning Time: Practice, Pause and Anticipation in the Sine-Saloum Delta, Senegal

Sandro Simon



Chapter 7. Lived Histories of Flows and Sediments in a Turkish Delta

Catarina Scaramelli



Chapter 8. Available, Yet Unavailable: Anchoring Land in the Ayeyarwady Delta, Myanmar

Benoit Ivars



Conclusion: Confluences and Distributaries in Delta Life

Franz Krause and Mark Harris



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