{"product_id":"the-anthropology-of-climate-change-isbn-9781118383001","title":"The Anthropology of Climate Change","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eBrings 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\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eCovers 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\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDiscusses the impact on global debates about climate change from North-South post-colonial histories and the social dimensions of the science of climate change.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncludes coverage of topics such as environmental determinism, climatic events as social catalysts, climatic disasters and societal collapse, and ethno-meteorology\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eAn 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\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments to Sources viii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAbout the Editor x\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface xi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments xiv\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: The Anthropology of Climate Change \u003ci\u003eSix Millennia of Study of the Relationship between Climate and Society \u003c\/i\u003e1\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMichael R. Dove\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I Continuities 37\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eClimate Theory\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Airs, Waters, Places 41\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHippocrates\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 On the Laws in Their Relation to the Nature of the Climate 47\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCharles de Secondat Montesquieu \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBeyond the Greco-Roman Tradition\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History 55\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIbn Khaldûn\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 The Jungle and the Aroma of Meats: An Ecological Theme in Hindu Medicine 67\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrancis Zimmermann \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eEthno-climatology Copyrighted Material\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Concerning Weather Signs 83\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTheophrastus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Gruff Boreas, Deadly Calms: A Medical Perspective on Winds and the Victorians 87\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eVladimir Jankoviæ\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II Societal and Environmental Change 103\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEnvironmental Determinism\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Nature, Rise, and Spread of Civilization 107\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFriedrich Ratzel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Environment and Culture in the Amazon Basin: An Appraisal of the Theory of Environmental Determinism 115\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBetty J. Meggers \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eClimate Change and Societal Collapse\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Management for Extinction in Norse Greenland 131\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThomas H. McGovern\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 What Drives Societal Collapse? 151\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHarvey Weiss and Raymond Bradley \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eClimatic Events as Social Crucibles\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Natural Disaster and Political Crisis in a Polynesian Society: An Exploration of Operational Research 157\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJames Spillius\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Drought as a “Revelatory Crisis”: An Exploration of Shifting Entitlements and Hierarchies in the Kalahari, Botswana 168\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJacqueline S. Solway\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III Vulnerability and Control 187\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCulture and Control of Climate\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 Rain-Shrines of the Plateau Tonga of Northern Rhodesia 191\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eElizabeth Colson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 El Niño, Early Peruvian Civilization, and Human Agency: Some Thoughts from the Lurin Valley 201\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRichard L. Burger \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eClimatic Disasters and Social Marginalization\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 Katrina: The Disaster and its Doubles 217\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNancy Scheper-Hughes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 “Nature”, “Culture” and Disasters: Floods and Gender in Bangladesh 223\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRosalind Shaw\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart IV Knowledge and its Circulation 235\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEmic Views of Climatic Perturbation\/Disaster\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 Typhoons on Yap 239\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDavid M. Schneider\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 The Politics of Place: Inhabiting and Defending Glacier Hazard Zones in Peru’s Cordillera Blanca 247\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMark Carey \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCo-production of Knowledge in Climatic and Social Histories\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 Melting Glaciers and Emerging Histories in the Saint Elias Mountains 261\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJulie Cruikshank\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20 The Making and Unmaking of Rains and Reigns 276\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTodd Sanders \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e“Friction” in the Global Circulation of Climate Knowledge\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21 Transnational Locals: Brazilian Experiences of the Climate Regime 301\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMyanna Lahsen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22 Channeling Globality: The 1997–98 El Niño Climate Event in Peru 315\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKenneth Broad and Ben Orlove\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 335\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"...a timely contribution to the discourse in anthropology for understanding the various impacts of global climate change from multiple perspectives and contexts...the pairing of relevant and related works under specific thematic areas is useful for class reading assignments and encouraging focused comparative debates.\" - \u003ci\u003eSandra Moore, for Anthropology Book Forum, Anthropology News\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“I believe that Dove’s book would serve as an excellent supplementary textbook for subjects on the anthropology of climate change because of its historical orientation.”  (\u003ci\u003eThe Australian Journal of Anthropology\u003c\/i\u003e, 6 April 2015)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“…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.’  (\u003ci\u003eAnthem EnviroExperts Review\u003c\/i\u003e, 1 October 2014)\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael R. Dove\u003c\/b\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eClimate perturbation and change is a topic of intense interest but the current conversation rarely moves beyond an examination of the contemporary situation. In doing so, it ignores insights from millennia of scholarly attention to the relationship between climate and society and doesn’t take full advantage of anthropological work on the subject. This timely anthology brings together the most important classical works and contemporary scholarship for a complete historical anthropological evaluation of the relationship between culture and climate change.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The essays in this volume study the historic and prehistoric records of human impact from and response to prior periods of climatic perturbation and change; the impact and response  at the local level; the impact on global debates  from North–South post-colonial histories; and the social dimensions of  climate science.  They encompass such topics as  environmental determinism, climatic events as social catalysts, climatic disasters and societal collapse, and the construction and circulation of knowledge about climate.  An ideal text for courses in climate change, human\/cultural ecology, environmental anthropology and archaeology, disaster studies, science and technology studies, history of science, and environmental sciences, this book not only informs current debates but also demonstrates that  the relationship between climate and society has preoccupied the human mind for as long as records have been kept.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e“In this brilliantly devised compilation, Michael Dove takes the long view, showing shifting perspectives on climate and culture from Hippocrates and Vedic medicine to catastrophic global change. This is a refreshingly diverse contribution at an urgent time.” \u003cbr\u003e             \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePaul Robbins, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin–Madison\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e“Fundamentally, climate change is an anthropological problem. In this wonderful book, Michael Dove introduces readers to the rich diversity of anthropological perspectives on climate and society.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eJ. Stephen Lansing, University of Arizona\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e“An innovative and instructive collection of studies on social and climate change, this book is a much needed addition to the ongoing work on how to think about climate change. The critical clarity that the papers in this collection afford should help readers to think beyond the assertions of doom or the skeptical denials that characterize nearly all work on climate – instead, the book, especially its introduction by Dove, is an invitation to think differently: an unusual luxury that gladdens the spirit.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eArun Agrawal, University of Michigan\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990157443301,"sku":"NP9781118383001","price":53.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781118383001.jpg?v=1761786724","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-anthropology-of-climate-change-isbn-9781118383001","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}