Two Days in the Life of a River
Glacier Floods in Bhutan
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3660643 |
|---|---|
| Authors | B Orlove (0000-0003-0489-4219, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1969 |
| Volume | 58 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 227-242 |
| Publication date | 1969-12-31 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Anthropologica (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0254-9212 • E-ISSN: 2224-6428 |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press (PUBLISHER • CA) |
| DOI | 10.3138/anth.582.t05 |
| OpenAlex | W2588837925 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 1 |
An analysis of glacier lake outburst floods in the Bhutanese Himalayas in 1994 and 2015 demonstrates the social importance of the temporality of water, understood as the variability in its flow and its capacity to disturb human activity. The ways in which social institutions and cultural meanings change and influence the perception, understanding and modes of interaction with water are examined here, to indicate how the relations between people and a river are neither stables nor in flux, but rather in ongoing reconfiguration. The importance of these social institutions and cultural meanings are demonstrated by a comparison of two types of buildings which are vulnerable to the floods: the traditional temple-fortresses and the new hydroelectric power plants
Geography · Glacier · Hydroelectricity · Physical geography · Sociology · Temporality · Cryospheric studies and observations · Ecology · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Philippine History and Culture
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,67 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |