Weather, Climate, Culture
Editat de Sarah Strauss, Benjamin S. Orloveen Limba Engleză Hardback – noi 2003
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781859736920
ISBN-10: 1859736920
Pagini: 326
Ilustrații: 10 b&w illustrations, bibliography, index
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1859736920
Pagini: 326
Ilustrații: 10 b&w illustrations, bibliography, index
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Cuprins
Introduction1.Sarah Strauss and Ben OrloveUp in the Air: The Anthropology of Weather and ClimateDAYS2.Jan Golinski TIME, TALK, AND THE WEATHER IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN.3.Sarah Strauss Weather Wise: Speaking Folklore to Science in Leukerbad4.Michael Paolisso Chesapeake Bay Watermen, Weather and Blue Crabs: Cultural Models and Fishery Policies5.Todd Sanders (En)Gendering the Weather: Rainmaking and Reproduction in Tanzania6.Trevor Harley (U. Dundee, UK)Nice weather for the time of year: The British obsession with the weatherYEARS7.Ben Orlove HOW PEOPLE NAME SEASONS8.John Thornes and Gemma Wetherell Monet's ‘London Series' and the Cultural Climate of London at the turn of the Twentieth Century9.David Ellis Changing Earth and Sky: Movement, Environmental Variability, and Responses to El Niño in the Pio-Tura Region of Papua New Guinea10.Carla Roncoli, Keith Ingram, Christine Jost, and Paul KirshenMeteorological Meanings: Farmers' Interpretations of Seasonal Rainfall Forecasts in Burkina Faso.GENERATIONS11.Tim Finan Climate Science and the Policy of Drought Mitigation in Ceará, Northeast Brazil12.Anne Henshaw CLIMATE AND CULTURE IN THE NORTH: THE INTERFACE OF ARCHAEOLOGY, PALEOENVIRONEMNTAL SCIENCE AND ORAL HISTORY13.Colin West and Marcela Vasquez-Léon Testing Farmers' Perceptions of Climate Variability: A Case Study from the Sulphur Springs Valley, Arizona14.Gisli Pálsson and Astrid Ogilvie "It looks like unfavourable weather is brewing":Descriptions of weather in the Sagas of Icelanders Afterword15.Steven Rayner Domesticating Nature: Commentary on the Anthropological Study of Weather and Climate Discourse
Notă biografică
Sarah Strauss Assistant Professor,University of Wyoming Benjamin S. Orlove Professor of Environmental Science and Policy, University of California, Davis and Adjunct Senior Research Scientist, International Research Institute for Climate Prediction, Columbia University, New York .
Descriere
Throughout history, the weather has been both feared and revered for its powerful influence over living creatures. Drawing on a wide range of case studies from around the world, this book provides an original and lively perspective on a subject that continues to have an incalculable impact on the way we live.