Print Email Facebook Twitter ‘Friendship is a slow ripening fruit’ Title ‘Friendship is a slow ripening fruit’: an agency perspective on water, values and infrastructure Author Ertsen, M.W. (TU Delft Water Resources) Date 2016 Abstract This paper argues that human and material agents co-shape ‘morality’. Water systems will be discussed in more detail. Artefacts (technologies) relate humans and their worlds, but the specifics of this relationship become meaningful only within specific actor-networks. As such, the material influences the moral decisions of humans. Examples from the larger Mesopotamian area, on both state-led and community-managed water systems, are discussed to show that these result from activities of individuals, households and groups manipulating water fluxes in short time periods of hours and days. Analysis of these daily activities, and especially of how the material acts, offers options for archaeologists to trace morality in action. Subject artefactsIrrigationMesopotamiamodellingmorality To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:bc92b3f5-6058-4f78-b893-afd4aa1b8e4b DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/00438243.2016.1246975 ISSN 0043-8243 Source World Archaeology, 48 (4), 500-516 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2016 M.W. Ertsen Files PDF 00438243.2016.1246975.pdf 1.69 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:bc92b3f5-6058-4f78-b893-afd4aa1b8e4b/datastream/OBJ/view