From hurricanes, floods, and earthquakes to oil spills and nuclear accidents, natural and technological disasters have become increasingly frequent and destructive across the planet. This ground-breaking collection of essays explores how various cultures in different historical moments have responded to calamity, offering new insights into the complex relationship between society and environment. Through case studies of communities in Great Britain, the Mediterranean, Asia and the Americas, contributors examine issues ...
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From hurricanes, floods, and earthquakes to oil spills and nuclear accidents, natural and technological disasters have become increasingly frequent and destructive across the planet. This ground-breaking collection of essays explores how various cultures in different historical moments have responded to calamity, offering new insights into the complex relationship between society and environment. Through case studies of communities in Great Britain, the Mediterranean, Asia and the Americas, contributors examine issues ranging from the social and political factors that set the stage for disaster, to the cultural processes experienced by survivors, to the long-term impact of disasters on culture and society.
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Textual maps & tables. Minor rubbing, some light cover soil, VG. 23x15cm, xiii, 334 pp. Contains 15 papers. Includes: A. Oliver-Smith " 'What Is a Disaster? ': Anthropological Perspectives on a Persistent Question"; P.D. Sheets "The Effects of Explosive Volcanism on Ancient Egalitarian, Ranked, and Stratified Societies in Middle America"; M.E. Moseley "Convergent Catastrophe: Past Patterns and Future Implications of Collateral Natural Disasters in the Andes"; A. Oliver-Smith "Peru's Five-Hundred-Year Earthquake: Vulnerability in Historical Context"; R. Bolin & L. Stanford " Constructing Vulnerability in the First World: The Northridge Earthquake in Southern California, 1994"; G.V. Button "The Negation of Disaster: The Media Response to Oil Spills in Great Britain"; S.M. Hoffman "The Worst of Times, the Best of Times: Toward a Model of Cultural Response to Disaster"; A. Oliver-Smith "The Brotherhood of Pain: Theoretical and Applied Perspectives on Post-Disaster Solidarity"; S.M. Hoffman "The Regenesis of Traditional Gender Patterns in the Wake of Disaster"; M.Q. Zaman " Vulnerability, Disaster, and Survival in Bangladesh: Three Case Studies"; C.L. Dyer & J.R. McGoodwin " 'Tell Them We're Hurting': Hurricane Andrew, the Culture of Response, and the Fishing Peoples of South Florida and Louisiana"; P.L. Doughty "Plan and Pattern in Reaction to Earthquake: Peru 1970-1998"; S.R. Rajan "Bhopal: Vulnerability, Routinization, and the Chronic Disaster"; C.L. Dyer "The Phoenix Effect in Post-Disaster Recovery: An Analysis of the Economic Development Administration's Culture of Response after Hurricane Andrew"; etc.
