The Medical Anthropology of Water

Whiteford, Linda M.; Padros, Cecilia Vindrola

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“…Anthropologies of water (e.g., Ballestero 2019;Hastrup and Hastrup 2015) also emerge from research in the many perspectives outlined above, and are crucial to future collaborative and creative work. Medical anthropologies of water initially focused closely on water-borne or water-related diseases (see Whiteford and Vindrola Padros 2011), but other, more subtle health issues have emerged at the intersection with environmental research. Of particular interest, beyond the potential to ingest toxins, the psychological and social strain of living with scarce water resources has been documented in a variety of locations (Ennis-McMillan 2001;Wutich and Ragsdale 2008).…”

Section: Factors and Actors Beyond The Humanmentioning

confidence: 99%

Pollution, Health, and Disaster

Dietrich

2021

Environment and Society

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The materiality of pollution is increasingly embodied in humans, animals, and the living environment. Ethnographic research, especially from within the fields broadly construed as medical anthropology, environmental anthropology, disaster anthropology, and science and technology studies are all positioned to make important contributions to understanding present lived experiences in disastrous environmental contexts. This article examines points of articulation within recent research in these areas, which have much in common but are not always in conversation with one another. Research and writing collaborations, as well as shared knowledge bases between ethnographic researchers who center different aspects of the spectrum of toxics- based environmental health, are needed to better account for and address the material and lived realities of increasing pollution levels in the time of a warming climate.

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Section: Factors and Actors Beyond The Humanmentioning

confidence: 99%

Pollution, Health, and Disaster

Dietrich

2021

Environment and Society

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“…Whiteford and Whiteford () argued that a focus on water's globalizing economic dimensions is crucial to understanding who is at risk of contracting diseases that are waterborne (e.g., cholera), water washed (e.g., shigellosis), water based (e.g., schistosomiasis), and water related (e.g., malaria). In Peru, Ecuador, and Venezuela, for instance, cholera outbreaks in the 1990s were intensified by the dynamics of socioeconomic marginality (Briggs ; Whiteford and Padros ). Medical anthropologists warn that large‐scale global changes—including neoliberalization, urbanization, globalization, and climate change—have created the conditions for a resurgence of water‐related diseases like dengue and malaria (Baer and Singer ).…”

Section: The Economic Anthropology Of Water and Healthmentioning

confidence: 99%

The economic anthropology of water

Wutich

Beresford

2019

Economic Anthropology

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Anthropological research on water and economy has a long and rich history, especially among archaeologists and political economy scholars. In this review article, we discuss contemporary anthropological scholarship on water and economy to identify still‐active areas of long‐standing theoretical interest as well as novel theoretical approaches. We present five important threads of scholarship on the economic anthropology of water: (1) commodification, exchange, and diverse economies; (2) the political ecology of water; (3) resilience and sustainability; (4) institutions; and (5) water and health. We explain how these theoretical approaches fit into broader trends in anthropological scholarship on water, explore how they advance the economic anthropology of water specifically, and identify ways that economic anthropologists can make new contributions to these literatures.

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“…The first example is the chapter on “Syndemics in Global Health” by Singer et al (2011). The syndemic orientation “recognizes the fundamental biosocial nature of health and that constellations of diseases and other health conditions interact synergistically, in consequential ways” and “emphasizes the ways that social conditions shape disease processes, often through broader environmental mediation.” Although not framing their chapter in the volume within syndemic approach per se, one could make the case that the contribution on “The Medical Anthropology of Water” by Linda M. Whiteford and Cecelia Vindrola Padros (2011) adheres to both the syndemic and global health approaches. They assert that “[e]nvironmental policy, and particularly water policy, brings new challenges for anthropological engagement” (Whiteford and Padros 2011:209).…”

Section: Global Healthmentioning

confidence: 99%

Engaged Anthropology in 2011: A View from the Antipodes in a Turbulent Era

Baer

2012

American Anthropologist

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Like any particular year, 2011 proved one that provided engaged anthropologists with many issues with which to grapple. These included the aftereffects of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, Wikileaks, the "Arab spring", and the Occupy movement. In this review article of engaged anthropology, I highlight the work of anthropologists as manifested in (1) published books and articles and (2) presentations at selected conferences and public events, some of which touch upon the above mentioned events as well as others that occurred in 2011. My essay focuses on the following themes: (1) corporate globalization, power, and inequalities in the world system;(2) global health; (3) climate change; (4) disasters; and (5) indigenity and indigenous rights in Australasia. I end my essay by revisiting the notion of "public anthropology" and juxtaposing this to what I view the much broader notion of "engaged anthropology." [engaged anthropology, public anthropology, 2011]

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The Medical Anthropology of Water

Cited by 20 publications

References 47 publications

Pollution, Health, and Disaster

Pollution, Health, and Disaster

The economic anthropology of water

Engaged Anthropology in 2011: A View from the Antipodes in a Turbulent Era

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