Michael R. Dove

The Anthropology of Climate Change

An Historical Reader
Herausgeber: Dove, Michael R

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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 change
Covers the historic and prehistoric records of human impact from and response to prior periods of climate change, including the impact and response to climate change at the local level
Discusses the impact on global debates about climate change from North-South post-colonial histories and the social dimensions of the science of climate change.
Includes coverage of topics such as environmental determinism, climatic events as social catalysts, climatic disasters and societal collapse, and ethno-meteorology
An ideal text for courses in climate change, human/cultural ecology, environmental anthropology and archaeology, disaster studies, environmental sciences, science and technology studies, history of science, and conservation and development studies

Produktdetails

• Blackwell Anthologies in Social and Cultural Anthropology
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 249mm x 178mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 708g
• ISBN-13: 9781118383551
• ISBN-10: 1118383559
• Artikelnr.: 39045817

Autorenporträt

Michael R. Dove is the Margaret K. Musser Professor of Social Ecology in the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Professor in the Department of Anthropology, Director of the Tropical resources Institute, and Curator of Anthropology at the Peabody Museum, Yale University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments to Sources viii About the Editor x Preface xi
Acknowledgments xiv Introduction: The Anthropology of Climate Change Six
Millennia of Study of the Relationship between Climate and Society 1
Michael R. Dove Part I Continuities 37 Climate Theory 1 Airs, Waters,
Places 41 Hippocrates 2 On the Laws in Their Relation to the Nature of the
Climate 47 Charles de Secondat Montesquieu Beyond the Greco-Roman Tradition
3 The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History 55 Ibn Khaldûn 4 The Jungle
and the Aroma of Meats: An Ecological Theme in Hindu Medicine 67 Francis
Zimmermann Ethno-climatology 5 Concerning Weather Signs 83 Theophrastus 6
Gruff Boreas, Deadly Calms: A Medical Perspective on Winds and the
Victorians 87 Vladimir Jankoviæ Part II Societal and Environmental Change
103 Environmental Determinism 7 Nature, Rise, and Spread of Civilization
107 Friedrich Ratzel 8 Environment and Culture in the Amazon Basin: An
Appraisal of the Theory of Environmental Determinism 115 Betty J. Meggers
Climate Change and Societal Collapse 9 Management for Extinction in Norse
Greenland 131 Thomas H. McGovern 10 What Drives Societal Collapse? 151
Harvey Weiss and Raymond Bradley Climatic Events as Social Crucibles 11
Natural Disaster and Political Crisis in a Polynesian Society: An
Exploration of Operational Research 157 James Spillius 12 Drought as a
"Revelatory Crisis": An Exploration of Shifting Entitlements and
Hierarchies in the Kalahari, Botswana 168 Jacqueline S. Solway Part III
Vulnerability and Control 187 Culture and Control of Climate 13
Rain-Shrines of the Plateau Tonga of Northern Rhodesia 191 Elizabeth Colson
14 El Niño, Early Peruvian Civilization, and Human Agency: Some Thoughts
from the Lurin Valley 201 Richard L. Burger Climatic Disasters and Social
Marginalization 15 Katrina: The Disaster and its Doubles 217 Nancy
Scheper-Hughes 16 "Nature", "Culture" and Disasters: Floods and Gender in
Bangladesh 223 Rosalind Shaw Part IV Knowledge and its Circulation 235 Emic
Views of Climatic Perturbation/Disaster 17 Typhoons on Yap 239 David M.
Schneider 18 The Politics of Place: Inhabiting and Defending Glacier Hazard
Zones in Peru's Cordillera Blanca 247 Mark Carey Co-production of Knowledge
in Climatic and Social Histories 19 Melting Glaciers and Emerging Histories
in the Saint Elias Mountains 261 Julie Cruikshank 20 The Making and
Unmaking of Rains and Reigns 276 Todd Sanders "Friction" in the Global
Circulation of Climate Knowledge 21 Transnational Locals: Brazilian
Experiences of the Climate Regime 301 Myanna Lahsen 22 Channeling
Globality: The 1997-98 El Niño Climate Event in Peru 315 Kenneth Broad and
Ben Orlove Index 335

Rezensionen

"...strengthened by Dove's excellent introduction, in which he outlines key themes and situates each work Dove has assembled a collection that demonstrates how anthropology can enhance our understanding of the relationship between climate and society.' (Anthem EnviroExperts Review, 1 October 2014)