Thinking Like a River

The Kemi River is the major watercourse in the Finnish province of Lapland and the »stream of life« for the inhabitants of its banks. Franz Krause examines fishing, transport and hydropower on the Kemi River and analyses the profoundly rhythmic patterns in the river dwellers' activities and the...

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Main Author: Krause, Franz
Format: Book
Language:unknown
Published: transcript Verlag 2023
Subjects:
Northern Finland
Lapland
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.14361/9783839467374
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spelling crtranscript:10.14361/9783839467374 2024-03-31T07:54:30+00:00 Thinking Like a River An Anthropology of Water and Its Uses Along the Kemi River, Northern Finland Krause, Franz 2023 http://dx.doi.org/10.14361/9783839467374 unknown transcript Verlag UmweltEthnologie ISSN 2629-415X 2747-3597 ISBN 9783837667370 9783839467374 monograph 2023 crtranscript https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839467374 2024-03-05T05:24:25Z The Kemi River is the major watercourse in the Finnish province of Lapland and the »stream of life« for the inhabitants of its banks. Franz Krause examines fishing, transport and hydropower on the Kemi River and analyses the profoundly rhythmic patterns in the river dwellers' activities and the river's dynamics. The course of the seasons and weekly and daily rhythms of discharge, temperature, work and other patterns make the river dwellers' world an ever-transforming phenomenon. The flows of life and the frictions of everyday encounters continually remake the river and its inhabitants, negotiating national strategies, economic power, people's ingenuity, and the currents of the Kemi River. Book Northern Finland Lapland transcript Verlag
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description The Kemi River is the major watercourse in the Finnish province of Lapland and the »stream of life« for the inhabitants of its banks. Franz Krause examines fishing, transport and hydropower on the Kemi River and analyses the profoundly rhythmic patterns in the river dwellers' activities and the river's dynamics. The course of the seasons and weekly and daily rhythms of discharge, temperature, work and other patterns make the river dwellers' world an ever-transforming phenomenon. The flows of life and the frictions of everyday encounters continually remake the river and its inhabitants, negotiating national strategies, economic power, people's ingenuity, and the currents of the Kemi River.
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Lapland
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