Waters. Conference Proceedings for “Waters as a Resource” of the SFB 1070 ResourceCultures and DEGUWA (Deutsche Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Unterwasserarchäologie e.V.)

This volume contains the conference contributions of scientists of the SFB 1070 presented at the conference 'Waters as a Resource', which was organized in cooperation with DEGUWA (Deutsche Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Unterwasserarchäologie e.V.) and took place in Tübingen from March 15th to 18th 2018. The conference proceedings focus on different resources provided by waters or on the ResourceComplexes connected to them. After a brief reflection on theories and methods used within the SFB 1070 to study and understand resources, conceptions of water bodies in cultural anthropology and archaeology are compared using the examples of the Guadalquivir and Syr Darya Rivers. The third contribution investigates water management on islands and its influences on the identity of the islanders. The fourth chapter shows how seclusion on islands can be an important resource for island communities in the Strait of Sicily. Waters as means for identity formation in medieval monasteries is the focus of the fifth chapter, which is followed by a contribution that investigates the impact of maritime food sources on Viking Life. The last study analyses Greek settlements in the Black Sea. All contributions illustrate how a new perspective on resources opens up new possibilities for interpretation

ResourceCultures. Sociocultural Dynamics and the Use of Resources - Theories, Methods, Perspectives

This volume is a collection of contributions to the international and interdisciplinary Conferences ‘Developments – Movements – Valuations’ from November 6th to 9th 2014 and ‘ResourceCultures – Theories, Methods, Perspectives’ from November 16th to 19th 2015 at the Eberhard Karls University Tübingen organised by the collaborative research centre ‘SFB 1070 ResourceCultures – Sociocultural Dynamics in the Use of Resources’. It includes comprehensive papers about theories, approaches and concepts for the exploration of ResourceCultures, applying a diachronic and interdisciplinary perspective according to the vision of the SFB. International experts from a variety of different disciplines present case studies, examining ResourceCultures from the very beginning of human history until the present in a wide variety of cultural contexts. Thus, they demonstrate the manifold facets of ‘resources’ as a category for scientific analysis.Bestellung möglich über: http://www.book-on-demand.de/shop/buchreihen-von-akademien-fachhochschulen-instituten-und-universitaten/universitat-tubingen-sfb