Wait five minutes : weatherlore in the twenty-first century /

"The weather governs our lives. It fills gaps in conversations, determines our dress, and influences our architecture. No matter how much our lives may have moved indoors, no matter how much we may rely on technology, we still monitor the weather. Wait Five Minutes: Weatherlore in the Twenty-Fi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Ingram, Shelley, 1979- (Editor ), Mullins, Willow (Willow G.) (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2023]
Temas:
Weather > Folklore.
Weather forecasting.
Meteorology.
Meteorologists.
Climatic changes.
Global environmental change.
Floods > Environmental aspects.
Temps (Météorologie) > Prévision.
Météorologie.
Météorologistes.
Climat > Changements.
Changement global (Environnement)
Inondations > Aspect de l'environnement.
meteorology.
meteorologists.
climate change.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Folklore & Mythology
Climatic changes
Floods > Environmental aspects
Global environmental change
Meteorologists
Meteorology
Weather > Folklore
Weather forecasting
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: and now, the weather
  • Introduction: the sky is telling it
  • Chapter 1. Divergent weatherlore in Christian hermeneutics: climate change and vernacular rhetoric in our current environmental crisis / Emma Frances Bloomfield and Sheila Bock
  • Chapter 2. "Of biblical proportions": flood motifs in personal narratives of Katrina survivors / Kate Parker Horigan
  • Chapter 3. In the bones: prognostication and weather in the twenty-first century / Willow G. Mullins
  • Chapter 4. Contrails to chemtrails: atmospheric scientists respond to challenging belief narratives / Anne Pryor
  • Chapter 5. From clockwork weatherman to atomic environmentalist / Máirt Hanley
  • Introduction: the romance of the weather
  • Chapter 6: The world of sensible seasons had come undone": climate change and regional folklore in Barbara Kingsolver's "Flight behavior" / Hannah Chapple
  • Chapter 7. Early modern special snowflakes / Christine Hoffmann
  • Chapter 8. Mothering the storm: Black girlhood and communal care in literature of Katrina
  • Jennifer Morrison and Shelley Ingram
  • Chapter 9: "You don't need a weatherman": Bob Dylan's windlore / James I. Deutsch
  • Chapter 10: "I'll never forget the thunderstorm of 1960, I think it was": storm stories
  • / Lena Marander-Eklund
  • Introduction: feeding the storm
  • Chapter 11. Framing the flood: strategic environmental storytelling in Appalachia
  • / Jordan Lovejoy
  • Chapter 12. Weathering the storm: folk ideas about character
  • / John Laudun
  • Chapter 13: It always rains on a picnic: weatherlore and community narrative at St. Patrick's Irish picnic and homecoming / Kristen Bradley
  • Chapter 14. The folk wisdom of lawns / Todd Richardson
  • Chapter 15. Canning for the apocalypse: climate change, zombies, and the early twenty-first-century canning renaissance / Claire Schmidt
  • About the contributors
  • Index.

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