The anthropology of climate change : an historical reader / / edited by Michael R. Dove

• Pubblicazione: Chichester, West Sussex : , : Wiley Blackwell, , 2014
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (360 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 551.6011
• Soggetto topico: Anthropology; Climatic changes - Forecasting; Climatic changes; Antropologia; Canvi climàtic; Previsió
• Soggetto genere / forma: Llibres electrònics
• Altri autori: DoveMichael <1949->
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- 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 Signs -- 6 Gruff Boreas, Deadly Calms: A Medical Perspective on Winds and the Victorians -- Part 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 Research -- 12 Drought as a "Revelatory Crisis" : An Exploration of Shifting Entitlements and Hierarchies in the Kalahari, Botswana -- Part 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/Disaster -- 17 Typhoons on Yap. ; 18 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: "In this brilliantly devised compilation, Michael Dove takes the long view, showing shifting perspectives on climate and culture from Hippocrates and Vedic medicine to catastrophic global change. This is a refreshingly diverse contribution at an urgent time." Paul Robbins, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison "Fundamentally, climate change is an anthropological problem. In this wonderful book, Michael Dove introduces readers to the rich diversity of anthropological perspectives on climate and society." J. Stephen Lansing, University of Arizona "An innovative and instructive collection of studies on social and climate change, this book is a much needed addition to the ongoing work on how to think about climate change. The critical clarity that the papers in this collection afford should help readers to think beyond the assertions of doom or the skeptical denials that characterize nearly all work on climate - instead, the book, especially its introduction by Dove, is an invitation to think differently: an unusual luxury that gladdens the spirit." Arun Agrawal, University of Michigan.
• Titolo autorizzato: The anthropology of climate change
• ISBN: 9781118606032; 1118606035
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910970700603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Wiley Blackwell Anthologies in Social and Cultural Anthropology Series