The anthropology of climate change : an historical reader
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Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Malden, MA :
Wiley Blackwell,
2014.
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xiii, 344 pages : illustrations, maps, graphs, tables ; 25 cm. |
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Wiley Blackwell Anthologies in Social and Cultural Anthropology
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Table of contents only Contributor biographical information Publisher description |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Introduction: The anthropology of climate change : six millennia of study of the relationship between climate and society / Michael R. Dove
- Part I: Continuities. Climate theory (Airs, waters, places / Hippocrates ; On the laws in their relation to the nature of the climate / Charles de Secondat Montesquieu) ; Beyond the Greco-Roman tradition (The Muqaddimah : an introduction to history / Ibn Khaldun ; The jungle and the aroma of meats : an ecological theme in Hindu medicine / Francis Zimmermann) ; Ethno-climatology (Concerning weather signs / Theophrastus ; Gruff boreas, deadly calms : a medical perspective on winds and the Victorians / Vladimir Jankovic)
- ^Part II: Societal and environmental change. Environmental determinism (Nature, rise, and spread of civilization / Friedrich Ratzel ; Environment and culture in the Amazon Basin : an appraisal of the theory of environmental determinism / Betty J. Meggers) ; Climate change and societal collapse (Management for extinction in Norse Greenland / Thomas H. McGovern ; What drives societal collapse? / Harvey Weiss and Raymond Bradley) ; Climate events as social crucibles (Natural disaster and political crisis in a Polynesian society : an exploration of operational research / James Spillius ; Drought as a "revelatory crisis" : an exploration of shifting entitlements and hierarchies in the Kalahari, Botswana / Jacqueline S. Solway)
- ^Part III: Vulnerability and control. Culture and control of climate (Rain-shrines of the Plateau Tonga of Northern Rhodesia / Elizabeth Colson ; El Nino, early Peruvian civilization, and human agency : some thoughts from the Lurin Valley / Richard L. Burger) ; Climatic disasters and social marginalization (Katrina : the disaster and its doubles / Nancy Scheper-Hughes ; "Nature", "culture" and disasters : floods and gender in Bangladesh / Rosalind Shaw)
- ^Part IV: Knowledge and its circulation. Emic views of climatic perturbation/disaster (Typhoons on Yap / David M. Schneider ; The politics of place : inhabiting and defending glacier hazard zones in Peru's Cordillera Blanca / Mark Carey) ; Co-production of knowledge in climatic and social histories (Melting glaciers and emerging histories in the Saint Elias mountains / Julie Cruikshank ; The making and unmaking of rains and reigns / Todd Sanders) ; "Friction" in the global circulation of climate knowledge (Transnational locals : Brazilian experiences of the climate regime / Myanna Lahsen ; Channeling globality : the 1997-98 El Nino climate event in Peru / Kenneth Broad and Ben Orlove).
