Veronica Strang: 3 books

Book cover of Water

Water

Nature and Culture

by Veronica Strang
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015

As any scientist will tell you, there is no substance more vital than water. Our history is necessarily a history with water, whether we have irrigated our fields with it, cooled our machines, washed ourselves, drank it down deeply, or even worshipped it. In Water, Veronic Strang ladles through the...
Book cover of Gardening the World

Gardening the World

Agency, Identity and the Ownership of Water

by Veronica Strang
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009

Around the world, intensifying development and human demands for fresh water are placing unsustainable pressures on finite resources. Countries are waging war over transboundary rivers, and rural and urban communities are increasingly divided as irrigation demands compete with domestic desires. Marginal...
Book cover of What Anthropologists Do
by Veronica Strang
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009

What is Anthropology? Why should you study it? What will you learn? And what can you do with it? What Anthropologists Do answers all these questions. And more. Anthropology is an astonishingly diverse and engaged subject that seeks to understand human social behaviour. What Anthropologists...
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