Introduction – an amphibious anthropology: the production of place at the confluence of land and water

TY - JOUR

T1 - Introduction – an amphibious anthropology

T2 - the production of place at the confluence of land and water

AU - Gagné, Karine

AU - Rasmussen, Mattias Borg

PY - 2016

Y1 - 2016

N2 - Amid global climate change and an uneven global political economy that preys on natural resources, landscapes are reshaped at the confluence of land and water, concretely and abstractly. Focusing on the production of place, we suggest that at their point of convergence, there is relational ontology between land and water. This constitutive relationality is the basis of what we call an amphibious anthropology. By foregrounding temporality, movement, and ways of knowing, we aim to grasp the experience of places at the confluence of land and water and to probe into the specificities of life in such landscapes or into various amphibious anthropologies.

AB - Amid global climate change and an uneven global political economy that preys on natural resources, landscapes are reshaped at the confluence of land and water, concretely and abstractly. Focusing on the production of place, we suggest that at their point of convergence, there is relational ontology between land and water. This constitutive relationality is the basis of what we call an amphibious anthropology. By foregrounding temporality, movement, and ways of knowing, we aim to grasp the experience of places at the confluence of land and water and to probe into the specificities of life in such landscapes or into various amphibious anthropologies.

M3 - Journal article

SN - 0003-5459

VL - 58

SP - 135

EP - 149

JO - Anthropologica

JF - Anthropologica

IS - 2

ER -