Water Beings

From Nature Worship to the Environmental Crisis

Water Beings
Veronica Strang
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Hardback
h250 x 190mm - 280pg
1 Feb 2023 UK
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9781789146882
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Early human relationships with water were expressed through beliefs in serpentine aquatic deities: rainbow-coloured, feathered or horned serpents, giant anacondas and dragons. Representing the powers of water, these beings were bringers of life and sustenance, world creators, ancestors, guardian spirits and law makers. Worshipped and appeased, they embodied people' s respect for water and its vital role in sustaining all living things. Yet today, though we still recognise that ' water is life' , fresh- and saltwater ecosystems have been critically compromised by human activities. This major study of water beings, and what has happened to them in different cultural and historical contexts, demonstrates how and why some - but not all - societies have moved from worshipping water to wreaking havoc upon it, and asks what we can do to turn the tide.
Veronica Strang is a cultural anthropologist affiliated to Durham University and Oxford University, and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. Her previous books include Water: Nature and Culture (Reaktion Books, 2015).
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ISBN-13: 9781789146882
Published: 1 Feb 2023
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Reaktion Books
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Format: Hardback
Height: 250mm
Width: 190mm
Pages: 280

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