04815nam 22006731 450 991045321780332120200520144314.01-118-38355-91-118-60595-01-118-60603-5(CKB)2550000001171790(EBL)1582376(OCoLC)866449041(SSID)ssj0001129721(PQKBManifestationID)11646674(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001129721(PQKBWorkID)11081075(PQKB)10163858(MiAaPQ)EBC1582376(Au-PeEL)EBL1582376(CaPaEBR)ebr10822367(CaONFJC)MIL553190(EXLCZ)99255000000117179020131226d2014 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe anthropology of climate change an historical reader /edited by Michael R. DoveChichester, West Sussex :Wiley Blackwell,2014.1 online resource (360 p.)Wiley Blackwell anthologies in social and cultural anthropologyDescription based upon print version of record.1-118-38300-1 1-306-21939-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.The Anthropology of Climate Change: An Historical Reader; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments to Sources; About the Editor; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Anthropology of Climate Change: Six Millennia of Study of the Relationship between Climate and Society; Part I Continuities; Climate Theory; 1 Airs, Waters, Places; 2 On the Laws in Their Relation to the Nature of the Climate; Beyond the Greco-Roman Tradition; 3 The Muqaddimah:An Introduction to History; 4 The Jungle and the Aroma of Meats: An Ecological Theme in Hindu Medicine; Ethno-climatology; 5 Concerning Weather Signs6 Gruff Boreas, Deadly Calms: A Medical Perspective on Winds and the VictoriansPart II Societal and Environmental Change; Environmental Determinism; 7 Nature, Rise, and Spread of Civilization; 8 Environment and Culture in the Amazon Basin: An Appraisal of the Theory of Environmental Determinism; Climate Change and Societal Collapse; 9 Management for Extinction in Norse Greenland; 10 What Drives Societal Collapse?; Climatic Events as Social Crucibles; 11 Natural Disaster and Political Crisis in a Polynesian Society: An Exploration of Operational Research12 Drought as a "Revelatory Crisis" : An Exploration of Shifting Entitlements and Hierarchies in the Kalahari, BotswanaPart III Vulnerability and Control; Culture and Control of Climate; 13 Rain-Shrines of the Plateau Tonga of Northern Rhodesia; 14 El Niño, Early Peruvian Civilization, and Human Agency: Some Thoughts from the Lurin Valley; Climatic Disasters and Social Marginalization; 15 Katrina: The Disaster and its Doubles1; 16 "Nature", "Culture" and Disasters: Floods and Gender in Bangladesh; Part IV Knowledge and its Circulation; Emic Views of Climatic Perturbation/Disaster17 Typhoons on Yap18 The Politics of Place: Inhabiting and Defending Glacier Hazard Zones in Peru's Cordillera Blanca; Co-production of Knowledge in Climatic and Social Histories; 19 Melting Glaciers and Emerging Histories in the Saint Elias Mountains; 20 The Making and Unmaking of Rains and Reigns; "Friction" in the Global Circulation of Climate Knowledge; 21 Transnational Locals: Brazilian Experiences of the Climate Regime; 22 Channeling Globality: The 1997-98 El Niño Climate Event in Peru; Index This timely anthology brings together for the first time the most important ancient, medieval, Enlightenment, and modern scholarship for a complete anthropological evaluation of the relationship between culture and climate change. Brings together for the first time the most important classical works and contemporary scholarship for a complete historical anthropological evaluation of the relationship between culture and climate changeCovers the historic and prehistoric records of human impact from and response to prior periods of climate change, including the impact and rWiley Blackwell Anthologies in Social and Cultural AnthropologyAnthropologyClimatic changesForecastingClimatic changesElectronic books.Anthropology.Climatic changesForecasting.Climatic changes.551.6011Dove Michael1949-993079MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910453217803321The anthropology of climate change2274036UNINA