Dove The Anthropology of Climate Change

An Historical Reader
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-118-60595-0
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 360 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Wiley Blackwell Anthologies in Social and Cultural Anthropology

This timely anthology brings together for the first time themost important ancient, medieval, Enlightenment, and modernscholarship for a complete anthropological evaluation of therelationship between culture and climate change.
* Brings together for the first time the most important classicalworks and contemporary scholarship for a complete historicalanthropological evaluation of the relationship between culture andclimate change
* Covers the historic and prehistoric records of human impactfrom and response to prior periods of climate change, including theimpact and response to climate change at the local level
* Discusses the impact on global debates about climate changefrom North-South post-colonial histories and the social dimensionsof the science of climate change.
* Includes coverage of topics such as environmental determinism,climatic events as social catalysts, climatic disasters andsocietal collapse, and ethno-meteorology
* An ideal text for courses in climate change, human/culturalecology, environmental anthropology and archaeology, disasterstudies, environmental sciences, science and technologystudies, history of science, and conservation and developmentstudies

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dove, Michael R.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 andSociety 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 Climate47
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 inHindu Medicine 67
Francis Zimmermann
Ethno-climatology
5 Concerning Weather Signs 83
Theophrastus
6 Gruff Boreas, Deadly Calms: A Medical Perspective on Winds andthe 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 ofthe 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 PolynesianSociety: An Exploration of Operational Research 157
James Spillius
12 Drought as a "Revelatory Crisis": An Explorationof Shifting Entitlements and Hierarchies in the Kalahari, Botswana168
Jacqueline S. Solway
Part III Vulnerability and Control 187
Culture and Control of Climate
13 Rain-Shrines of the Plateau Tonga of Northern Rhodesia191
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 GlacierHazard Zones in Peru's Cordillera Blanca 247
Mark Carey
Co-production of Knowledge in Climatic and SocialHistories
19 Melting Glaciers and Emerging Histories in the Saint EliasMountains 261
Julie Cruikshank
20 The Making and Unmaking of Rains and Reigns 276
Todd Sanders
"Friction" in the Global Circulation ofClimate Knowledge
21 Transnational Locals: Brazilian Experiences of the ClimateRegime 301
Myanna Lahsen
22 Channeling Globality: The 1997-98 El Niño ClimateEvent in Peru 315
Kenneth Broad and Ben Orlove
Index 335

Über Autor(innen)

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