TY  - BOOK
AU  - Walsh, Casey
AB  - Virtuous Waters is a pathbreaking and innovative study of bathing, drinking and other everyday engagements with a wide range of waters across five centuries in Mexico. Casey Walsh uses political ecology to bring together an analysis of shifting scientific, religious and political understandings of waters and a material history of social formations, environments, and infrastructures. The book shows that while modern concepts and infrastructures have come to dominate both the hydrosphere and the scholarly literature on water, longstanding popular understandings and engagements with these heterogeneous liquids have been reproduced as part of the same process. Attention to these dynamics can help us comprehend and confront the water crisis that is coming to a head in the twenty-first century.
DO  - 10.1525/luminos.48
KW  - Social Science
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - General
KW  - Science
KW  - Earth Sciences
KW  - General
KW  - History
KW  - Historical Geography
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/d5d1f6c0-00e4-459a-b19c-a43fc2f12a78/external_content.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/43693
PB  - University of California Press
PY  - 2018
SN  - 9780520291737
TI  - Virtuous Watersnull
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