History of Water, A, Series II, Volume 1 : Ideas of Water from Ancient Societies to the Modern World (Hardcover)

Chapter 1: A History of the Ideas of Water: Deconstructing Nature and Constructing Society Terje Tvedt & Terje Oestigaard Part 1 From Big Bang to the Hydrological cycle Chapter 2: Water and Cosmos Robert Kandel Chapter 3: Water in Science and Scientific Discovery Philip Ball Chapter 4: Water and the Development of the Concept of Chemical Substance Paul Needham Chapter 5: Water, its flux, its cycle, and its power: the romantic turning point in the history of the water idea Rodney Farnsworth Part 2 From Roman Aqueducts to Modern Spas Chapter 6: Aqueduct as Hegemonic Architecture Rina Faletti Chapter 7: Social Uses of Water in the Ancient Mediterranean Garrett G. Fagan Chapter 8: The Rule of Water: Uncertainty and the Cultural Ecology of Water in South India David Mosse Chapter 9: Water and Sanitation from Antiquity to Today Petri S. Juuti and Henry Nygard Chapter 10: Cultural Ideas of Water and Swimming in Modern Europe Susan C. Anderson Part 3 From Judaism and Islam to the Maya water cosmology Chapter 11: Bathing in Divine Waters: Water and Purity in Judaism and Islam Francesca de Chatel Chapter 12: Purification, Purgation and Penalty: Christian Concepts of Water and Fire in Heaven and Hell Terje Oestigaard Chapter 13: Hydrolatry in early European religions and Christian syncretism: Dieter Gerten Chapter 14: Water in Aboriginal Australia Veronica Strang Chapter 15: "Rain, snakes and sex - making rain": Rock art and rain-making in Africa and America Tore Sætersdal Chapter 16: Shaping Beliefs, Identities and Institutions: the Role of Water Myths among Ethnic Groups in Yunnan of China Zheng Xiao Yun Chapter 17: Flood Myths Wendy Doniger Chapter 18: Water Cosmoview and Symbolism in the Mesoamerican and Peruvian Area in the pre-Hispanic period Jose Luis Martinez Ruiz, Daniel Murillo Licea & Jorge Martinez Ruiz