Fluid consistencies. Material relationality in human engagements with water

Strang, V.

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: Aug 4, 2016
• 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.
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1440984