Thinking Like a River : : An Anthropology of Water and Its Uses Along the Kemi River, Northern Finland / / Franz Krause.

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• VerfasserIn: Krause, Franz,
• MitwirkendeR: Liebig, Oliver D.,
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: UmweltEthnologie ; 7
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (294 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Foreword -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. River dwellers: Living along the “stream of life” -- 3. A fluvial topology: The river as space-maker -- 4. Shaping and reshaping the river: Towards an environmental history -- 5. Fishing the Kemi River: Engagement and empathy with a flow -- 6. Boating along the Kemi River: Claiming and understanding water through navigation -- 7. Timber floating down the river: Managing flow and friction of people, wood and water -- 8. Roads across the catchment: Acceleration, transformation and the seasonal world -- 9. The power of water: Hydroelectricity, river management and displacement -- 10. Rhythms, regularities and regulation: The temporality of the river -- 11. Conclusion -- References