Catastrophe & Culture : The Anthropology of Disaster Paperback / softback
Edited by Susanna M. Hoffman, Anthony Oliver-Smith
Part of the School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar Series series
Paperback / softback
Description
At a time of increasing globalization and worldwide vulnerability, the study of disasters has become an important focus for anthropological research-one where the four fields of anthropology are synthesized to address the multidimensionality of the effects to a community's social structures and relationship to the environment.
Using a variety of natural and technological disasters-including Mexican earthquakes, drought in the Andes and in Africa, the nuclear meltdown at Chernobyl, the Exxon Valdez oil spill, the Oakland firestorm, and the Bhopal gas disaster-the authors of this volume explore the potentials of disaster for ecological, political-economic, and cultural approaches to anthropology along with the perspectives of archaeology and history.
They also discuss the connection between theory and practice and what anthropology can do for disaster management.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:316 pages
- Publisher:SAR Press
- Publication Date:30/01/2002
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- ISBN:9781930618152
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Item not Available
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:316 pages
- Publisher:SAR Press
- Publication Date:30/01/2002
- Category:
- ISBN:9781930618152
