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Fluid consistencies. Material relationality in human engagements with water

Strang, V.

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V. Strang



Abstract

Material things are not just passive recipients of human categories, meanings and values, nor mere subjects of human agency. Their particular characteristics and behaviours are formative of human–non-human relations. The common material properties of things, and the shared cognitive and phenomenological processes through which people interact with them, generate recurrent ideas and patterns of engagement in diverse cultural and historical contexts. Despite growing instrumentalism in human ‘management’ of the material world, and the emergence of new relational forms, these patterns persist.

Citation

Strang, V. (2014). Fluid consistencies. Material relationality in human engagements with water. Archaeological Dialogues, 21(02), 133-150. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1380203814000130

Journal Article Type Article
Online Publication Date Nov 26, 2014
Publication Date Dec 1, 2014
Deposit Date Nov 30, 2014
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
Journal Archaeological Dialogues
Print ISSN 1380-2038
Electronic ISSN 1478-2294
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 21
Issue 02
Pages 133-150
DOI https://doi.org/10.1017/s1380203814000130
Keywords Human–environmental relations, Materiality, Agency, Bioethics.

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