The economic anthropology of water
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2048971 |
|---|---|
| Authors | A Wutich (0000-0003-4164-1632, Arizona State University, corresponding author), Melissa Beresford (0000-0002-5707-3943, San Jose State University) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 168-182 |
| Publication date | 2019-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Economic Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2330-4847 • E-ISSN: 2330-4847 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/sea2.12153 |
| OpenAlex | W2948432699 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 17 |
| References cited | 175 |
Anthropological research on water and economy has a long and rich history, especially among archaeologists and political economy scholars. In this review article, we discuss contemporary anthropological scholarship on water and economy to identify still-active areas of long-standing theoretical interest as well as novel theoretical approaches. We present five important threads of scholarship on the economic anthropology of water: (1) commodification, exchange, and diverse economies; (2) the political ecology of water; (3) resilience and sustainability; (4) institutions; and (5) water and health. We explain how these theoretical approaches fit into broader trends in anthropological scholarship on water, explore how they advance the economic anthropology of water specifically, and identify ways that economic anthropologists can make new contributions to these literatures
Commodification · Ecological anthropology · Economic anthropology · Political ecology · Sociocultural anthropology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies · Water Governance and Infrastructure
Modern water
“Why would we want to know that?”
Introduction
Witness to a passing
Can household water sharing advance water security? An integrative review of water entitlements and entitlement failures
The nature and determining factors of inter-household water transfers in Kabul, Afghanistan
Water Sharing as Disaster Response
Toward New Organizational Sociology of Quantification
Es posible una antropología del agua? Viejos enfoques para nuevas perspectivas
Water Insecurity and Maternal Health Among Haudenosaunee Women in Canada
Destruction productive ou prédation permanente ? L'eau, le travail et l'accumulation dans la production de fraises à Huelva (Andalousie, Espagne)
A Place at the Well
Water sharing is a distressing form of reciprocity
Aquifer Aporias
Sensing, knowing, and making water quality along Marikina River in the Philippines
Où vivre sans boire revisited
Water Futures in Australia
Does ecosystem services valuation reflect local cultural valuations? Comparative analysis of resident perspectives in four major urban river ecosystems
Anthropology and Climate Change
The Promise of Infrastructure
Governing the Commons
Progress in household water insecurity metrics
Adaptation to Environmental Change
The Political Economy and Political Ecology of the Hydro‐Social Cycle
The costs and risks of coping with drought
What Drives Societal Collapse?
Resilience and Stability of Ecological Systems
Early hydraulic civilization in Egypt
Nation and Conservation
A Political Ecology of “Water in Mind”
Rise of Anthropological Theory
Dams and Development in China
Stories in the Time of Cholera
The Future of Large Dams
Dehydration among lactating mothers in the A mazon
Access, Alienation, and the Production of Chronic Liminality
Value of Water
Recognizing Farmer Environmentalism
Wine Tourism in the Temecula Valley
“Drought is a Relative Term
To Buy or not to Buy? Perceptions of Bottled Drinking Water in Australia and New Zealand
I know how stressful it is to lack water!’ Exploring the lived experiences of household water insecurity among pregnant and postpartum women in western Kenya
Water from fruit or the river? Examining hydration strategies and gastrointestinal illness among Tsimane’ adults in the Bolivian Amazon
Disparities in plain, tap and bottled water consumption among US adults
Mediating water governance
Furthering critical institutionalism
Travelling models of participation
Substantial Connections
From Living Water to the “Water of Death”
Gender and Sustainability
A Legacy of Suffering
A comparative assessment of climate vulnerability
Free basic water — a sustainable instrument for a sustainable future in South Africa
The sharing economy
Sustainable de-growth
Thinking Relationships Through Water
Reading the Rains
Water worlds
Against the Privatization of Water
Can Informal Water Vendors Deliver on the Promise of A Human Right to Water? Results From Cochabamba, Bolivia
Metering water
Was the drought really responsible? Assessing statistical relationships between climate extremes and cultural transitions
A political ecology of water equity and tourism
Archaeologies of flow
Living in Utility Scarcity
Sustainability or Collapse
Framing community entitlements to water in Accra, Ghana
Suffering for water, suffering from water
Mixing waters
Heat and hydration status
Water insecurity and emotional distress
The Index of Vulnerability
Aguas Broncas
Troubling Water
Resilience
Nature as infrastructure
Canal Irrigation and Local Social Organization [and Comments and Reply]
Considering social and material resources
How institutions think
The Alternative Economy
Hydraulic City
Bottled Water
Diverse economies
Living Institutions
Moral equality and success of common-pool water governance in Namibia
The hydrosocial cycle
The Political Ecology of Water
Pipes and praxis
Cultural Politics, Communal Resistance and Identity in Andean Irrigation Development
Privatizing water
Epilogue
Thinking with Flint
Ecology and Ritual
Sustainability and the politics of calculation
Water insecurity in a syndemic context
Coca-colonization of diets in the Yucatan
The cost of belonging
Neoextractivism and Indigenous Water Ritual in Salar de Atacama, Chile
Disciplining De Facto Development
Historical waterscape trajectories that need care
Comedy and Tragedy in the Andean Commons
Introduction
Can Properties of Labor-Exchange Networks Explain the Resilience of Swidden Agriculture
Ethics and Water Governance
Using Consensus Analysis to Assess Mental Models about Water Use and Management in the Crocodile River Catchment, South Africa
The Cross-scale Interplay between Social and Biophysical Context and the Vulnerability of Irrigation-dependent Societies
Water commodification and decommodification narratives
Flint, Environmental Racism, and Racial Capitalism
The Ethnography of Infrastructure
Water Futures
Intersections of gender and water
Citizenship Prepaid
The Moral Economy of the English Crowd in the Eighteenth Century
The Moral Economy of Water Reexamined
Placing Archaeology at the Center of Socio-Natural Studies
Suffering from Water
Fijian Water in Fiji and New York
| Unique citing works | 17 |
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| Citations per year | 2,83 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2025 (6) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 17 |