The Anthropology of Climate Change : An Historical Reader.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (360 pages)
- New York Academy of Sciences Series .
- New York Academy of Sciences Series .
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.