Publication Type
Book Review
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
1-2023
Abstract
Throughout his lyricalRunning Out: In Search of Water on theHigh Plains, Lucas Bessire returns repeatedly to WagonbedSprings, an oasis long gone dry in western Kansas. Withinhis densely woven narrative of aquifer depletion, these springsemerge as a place with several valences. They are, of course, anaboveground manifestation of the effects of subterranean waterextraction. But just as central to the book’s project, Bessire usesthe site to explore the notions of complicity and repair—bothhis own and his ancestors’—in relation to the fast-decliningOgallala Aquifer.
Discipline
Anthropology
Publication
American Ethnologist
Volume
50
Issue
1
First Page
155
Last Page
156
ISSN
0094-0496
Identifier
10.1111/amet.13118
Publisher
Wiley
Citation
RANDLE, Sayd.
Running out: In search of water on the High Plains by Lucas Bessire. (2023). American Ethnologist. 50, (1), 155-156.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cis_research/97
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Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.13118