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Holy water. The universal and the particular

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 November 2014

Terje Oestigaard
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Veronica Strang's ‘Fluid consistences. Material relationality in human engagements with water’ is a highly welcome theoretical discussion regarding the role of water in society and social theories. As a discussion article, Strang's piece opens up a number of fields of enquiry where water empirically and theoretically challenges current theories, but given the limitations of an article there are still other spheres where water may contest dominant theories, and I will briefly address some of these aspects with an emphasis on holy water.

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Archaeological Dialogues , Volume 21 , Issue 2 , December 2014 , pp. 162 - 165
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2014 

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