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Veronica Strang is a Professor of Anthropology affiliated to Oxford University. Her research focuses on human-environmental relations and, in particular, people’s engagements with water. She has conducted ethnographic research in Australia, the UK and New Zealand. In 2000 she received a Royal Anthropological Institute Urgent Anthropology Fellowship, and in 2007 she was awarded an international water prize by UNESCO. Key publications include Uncommon Ground: cultural landscapes and environmental values (1997); The Meaning of Water (2004); Gardening the World: agency, identity and the ownership of water (2009); Ownership and Appropriation (2010); Water: nature and culture (2015); and From the Lighthouse: interdisciplinary reflections on light (2018). She has recently completed a major comparative text about culturally and historically diverse water deities, focusing on how they reveal diverse societal trajectories in human-environmental relationships, Water Beings: from nature worship to the environmental crisis (Reaktion 2023). For more information go to https://www.veronicastrang.com/

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University of Oxford: Oxford, GB

2019-12-12 to present | Affiliate (School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography)
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Education and qualifications (3)

University of Oxford: Oxford, Oxfordshire, GB

1991 to 1995 | DPhil Ethnology and Museum Ethnography (Anthropology)
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University of Oxford: Oxford, Oxfordshire, GB

1989 to 1991 | MPhil Ethnology and Museum Ethnography (Anthropology)
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University of Sheffield: Sheffield, South Yorkshire, GB

1976 to 1978 | BA (Hons) Art and Design (College of Art)
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Works (1)

The Hard Way

Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale
2023-12-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Veronica Strang
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