The water and culture reader
By: compiled and edited by Matthias Schubnell, Tanja Stampfl, David Pryor, Hector Perez, Emily Clark, and Mary Beth Swofford, University of the Incarnate Word, San Antonio
Contributors: Stampfl, Tanja, editor; Pryor, David, editor; Perez, Hector, editor; Clark, Emily, editor; Swofford, Mary Beth, editor; University of the Incarnate Word
Edition: Second edition.
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 901
ISBN-13: 9781598717389
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Water-supply; Water resources development; Religious aspects; Water use; Water; Water rights; Water in literature; Right to water; Political aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Preface / Helen Ballew; title: Sacred water : introduction. Still water meditation / Caroline way; title: The big picture : confronting the water crisis / Alick Bartholomew; title: Sister water : an introduction to blue theology / Margaret H. Ferris; title: The blessing of the water / Marina Lachecki; title: Sogen's one drop of water / Shodo Harada Roshi; title: I like fountain flow : religion revisited / Gary L. Chamberlin; title: Table 8-1 : selected religious perspectives on consumption / Gary T. Gardner; title: Modern naturalism / D.L. Marrin; title: Global water. The indispensable resource / Steven Solomon; title: Epilogue : back to the source / Tom Standage; title: Where has all the water gone? / Mark Holston; title: Will Tuvalu disappear beneath the sea? / Leslie Allen; title: Draining our future / Lester R. Brown; title: Landfill-on-sea / Daisy Dumas; title: Wet and wonderful : the world's largest wetlands are conservation priorities / Paul A. Keddy [and others]; title: Water, culture, and postcolonialism : an introduction / Tanja Stampfl; title: Water in San Antonio and the Southwest : introduction. Bottled water : friend or foe? / Christopher C. Castillo, Diana Goettsch, Angela Ried, Catherine Sterline; title: San Antonio : a city guided by its river / Alexis Harte; title: Flood of memories / Char Miller; title: Acequia technology / Charles R. Porter; title: From Mayordomo / Stanley Crawford; title: Water and social conflict / Michael C. Meyer; title: Race for water? Native Americans, Eurocentrism, and western water policy / Kate A. Berry; title: Tracking U.S. groundwater : reserves for the future? / William M. Alley; title: Water in Asia : an introduction. Women and water harvesting / Nafisa Barot and Salil Nehta; title: The calm before the wqave / Tim Folger; title: Sharing water, preventing war; title: hydrodiplomacy in South Asia / James Kraska; title: A sea returns to life, a sea slowly dies / Paul Lauener; title: Dramatic turnaround / Richard Mahapatra; title: Water in Africa : introduction. License to colonise / Osei Boateng; title: The wells are drying up : water and women in Ghana / Emily Archer; title: Women and water / Karen Bouwer; title: Damming Sudan / Andrew Lawler; title: Water and conflict / Abiodun Alao.; title: Water in Central and South America : introduction. Water as source of equity and empowerment in Costa Rica / Lorena Aguilar; title: Mexico City's water crisis / David Barkin; title: Gender, class, and water : the role orf women in the protests over water / Vivienne Bennet; title: Nature as intrastructure : making and managing the Panama Canal watershed / Ashley Carse; title: Privatization / Oscar Olivera and Tom Lewis; title: In Bolivia, water and ice tell of climate change / Elisabeth Rosenthal; title: Water in literature : poetry. Snowmen / Aga Shahid Ali; title: Corsons inlet / A.R. Ammons; title: Dover Beach / Matthew Arnold; title: The sea eats the land at home / George Awoonor-Williams; title: At the fishhouses ; The bight ; Cape Breton / Elizabeth Bishop; title: The ocean / George Byron; title: New ecology / Ernesto Cardenal; title: Morning sea / C.P. Cavafy; title: Stone fish lake / Yuan Chieh; title: Come hither ; The River Gwash ; Song / John Clare; title: Night rain / John Pepper Clark; title: 26 Cypress Boat ; 45 Cypress Boat / Confucius; title: Anacreontics : drinking / Abraham Cowley; title: Dry river / Rosemary Dobson; title: Rising damp / Ursula Askham Fanthorpe; title: Once by the Pacific ; A brook in the city / Robert Frost; title: The bath : August 6, 1945 / Kimiko Hahn; title: The arrow and the sea / Blanche Hartman; title: Fable of fables / Nazim Hikmet; title: The waters of Lung-T'ou : the northwest frontier / Hsu Ling; title: St. John River / Alden Nowlan; title: The Rio Grande / Americo Paredes; title: Planting bamboos / Chu-I Po; title: An African thunderstorm / David Rubadiri; title: Selected poems / Rumi; title: The bath / Gary Snyder; title: A description of a city shower / Jonathan Swift; title: El cenote de Sandra / Natalia Trevino; title: Passages from Tao te ching : Passage 8 : Water; Passage 66 : Lead by following; Passage 78 : Yielding / Lao Tze; title: The water-fall / Henry Vaughan; title: Sea grapes / Derek Walcott; title: Concerning the flooding of Prague after constant rains / Elizabeth Weston; title: From pent-up aching rivers / Walt Whitman; title: From Teisa : A descriptive poem of the River Tees, its towns and antiquities / Anne Wilson; title: A drop of water / Yishan; title: Delight in nature / An anonymous Inuit poet.; title: Water in literature : prose for Composition I. Christopher, the fisherman / Hermann Schubnell; title: What holds the water, what holds the light / Linda Hogan; title: Shall we gather at the river? / Brenda Peterson; title: The ponds / Henry David Thoreau; title: Flood-storm in the Sierra / John Muir; title: Two ways of seeing a river / Mark Twein; title: Once more to the lake / E.B. White; title: Water in literature : prose for World Literature Studies. From Bless me, Ultima / Rudolfo Anaya; title: From borderlands/La frontera : the new mestiza / Gloria Anzaldua; title: From The land of little rain / Mary Austin; title: Heart of darkness / Joseph Conrad; title: The benchmark / Michael Dorris; title: From a passage to India / E.M. Forster; title: The water of life / Jacob and Wilhalm Grimm; title: Brides of the well / Shekhar Kapur; title: Paddy seeds / Mahawasweta Devi; title: From A bend in the river / V.S. Naipaul; title: From Rowing the eternal sea : the story of a Minamata fisherman / Keibo Oiwa; title: Drought / Jan Rabie; title: The legend of La Llorona / Anonymous translated by Susannah Anderson.