In one form or another, water participates in the making and unmaking of
people's lives, practices, and stories. Contributors' detailed
ethnographic work analyzes the union and mutual shaping of water and
social lives. This volume discusses current ecological disturbances and
engages in a world where unbounded relationalities and unsettled frames
of orientation mark the lives of all, anthropologists included. Water
emerges as a fluid object in more senses than one, challenging
anthropologists to foreground the mutable character of their objects of
study and to responsibly engage with the generative role of cultural
analysis.