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Virtuous Waters: Mineral Springs, Bathing, and Infrastructure in Mexico

Virtuous Waters: Mineral Springs, Bathing, and Infrastructure in Mexico

Walsh, Casey

Paperback

AnthropologyGeneral PsychologyMexican History

ISBN10: 0520291735
ISBN13: 9780520291737
Publisher: Univ Of California Pr
Published: Mar 9 2018
Pages: 226
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
At free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.

Virtuous Waters is a pathbreaking and innovative study of bathing, drinking and other everyday engagements with a wide range of waters across five centuries in Mexico. Casey Walsh uses political ecology to bring together an analysis of shifting scientific, religious and political understandings of waters and a material history of social formations, environments, and infrastructures. The book shows that while modern concepts and infrastructures have come to dominate both the hydrosphere and the scholarly literature on water, longstanding popular understandings and engagements with these heterogeneous liquids have been reproduced as part of the same process. Attention to these dynamics can help us comprehend and confront the water crisis that is coming to a head in the twenty-first century.

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