The Anthropology of Climate Change An Historical Reader.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Dove, Michael R.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2014.
Colección:New York Academy of Sciences Ser.
Temas:
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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

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