Anthropology of water fall 2016

This site tells our stories of water.

 

We are an Anthropology of Water class at Purdue University. Using an anthropological and social science  perspective on water issues, this course explores the myriad ways in which water resources are part of the lives of millions of people in the world. 

 

Water is also intimately tied to identity, and we explored case studies that pay attention to how gender, race, ethnicity, and class are part of different water-scapes.

 

Drawing upon our own lives, we examine attitudes, beliefs and practices surrounding water, and how these are inevitably tied up with different perceptions about and conceptions of landscape, place, and well-being.