Terje Oestigaard, Dr Art, is Senior Researcher at the Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala, Sweden, and Docent at the Department of Archaeology and Ancient History at Uppsala University, Sweden. His recent books include Dammed Divinities: The Water Powers at Bujagali Falls, Uganda (2015), Religion at Work in Globalised Traditions: Rainmaking, Witchcraft and Christianity in Tanzania (2014) and Water, Christianity and the Rise of Capitalism (2013). He also co-edited A History of Water, Series 3, Vol. 3: Water and Food: From Hunter–Gatherers to Global Production in Africa (2016), Land and Hydropolitics in the Nile River Basin: Challenges and New Investments (2016) and Framing African Development: Challenging Concepts (2016).
12 Ebooks de Terje Oestigaard
Anders Jagerskog & Terje Oestigaard: Land and Hydropolitics in the Nile River Basin
The Nile River Basin supports the livelihoods of millions of people in Egypt, Ethiopia, Sudan and Uganda, principally as water for agriculture and hydropower. The resource is the focus of much …
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€54.79
Gedef Abawa Firew & Anders Kaliff: Source of the Blue Nile
Ethiopia has a rich and fascinating cultural heritage structured around water. The River Nile has been seen by many as the most important river in the world, and the secrets of the sources of the …
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€72.21
Anders Kaliff: Religion at Work in Globalised Traditions
Why do traditions disappear? How is the disappearance of tradition also a vehicle for social change and re-inventions of practices and new traditions? Using case studies from one Sukuma area along …
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€90.43
Anders Kaliff & Terje Oestigaard: Cremation, Corpses and Cannibalism
Death matters and the matters of death are initially, and to a large extent, the decaying flesh of the corpse. Cremation as a ritual practice is the fastest and most optimal way of dissolving the …
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€113.28
Terje Oestigaard & Terje Tvedt: A History of Water: Series III, Volume 3
Major changes in policy and management , across the entire agricultural production chain, will be needed to ensure the best use of available water resources in meeting growing demands for food and …
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€146.98
Terje Oestigaard: Water, Christianity and the Rise of Capitalism
The Christian religion is deeply imbued with the imagery of water, and water plays a central role in its religious practices, not least in baptism. Yet the wider role of water in Christianity has …
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€135.63
Anders Kaliff & Terje Oestigaard: Indo-European Fire Rituals
Indo-European Fire Rituals is a comparative study of Indo-European fire rituals from modern folklore and ethnography in Scandinavia and archaeological material in Europe from the Bronze Age onwards …
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€44.78
Anders Kaliff & Terje Oestigaard: Indo-European Fire Rituals
Indo-European Fire Rituals is a comparative study of Indo-European fire rituals from modern folklore and ethnography in Scandinavia and archaeological material in Europe from the Bronze Age onwards …
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Inglés
DRM
€44.98
Anders Jagerskog & Terje Oestigaard: Land and Hydropolitics in the Nile River Basin
The Nile River Basin supports the livelihoods of millions of people in Egypt, Ethiopia, Sudan and Uganda, principally as water for agriculture and hydropower. The resource is the focus of much …
EPUB
Inglés
DRM
€54.72
Terje Oestigaard: The Religious Nile
The Nile is arguably the most famous river in the world. For millennia, the search for its source defeated emperors and explorers. Yet the search for its source also contained a religious quest – a …
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€112.31
Terje Oestigaard: The Religious Nile
The Nile is arguably the most famous river in the world. For millennia, the search for its source defeated emperors and explorers. Yet the search for its source also contained a religious quest – a …
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DRM
€113.16
Terje Oestigaard & Terje Tvedt: A History of Water: Series III, Volume 3
Major changes in policy and management , across the entire agricultural production chain, will be needed to ensure the best use of available water resources in meeting growing demands for food and …
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DRM
€146.37
