Catastrophe & culture : the anthropology of disaster / edited by Susanna M. Hoffman and Anthony Oliver-Smith. [print]

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: School of American Research advanced seminar seriesPublication details: Santa Fe, New Mexico : School of American Research Press ; (c)2002.; Oxford : J. Currey, (c)2002.Description: xii, 312 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
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  • HV553.O48.C383 2002
  • HV553
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Contents:
Why anthropologists should study disasters Anthony Oliver-Smith and Susanna M. Hoffman -- Theorizing disasters : nature, power and culture Anthony Oliver-Smith -- Historical disaster research Virginia Garcia-Acosta -- Danger and the no-risk thesis Robert Paine -- Bounding uncertainty : the post-Chernobyl culture of radiation protection experts Sharon Stephens -- Monster and the mother : the symbolism of disaster Susanna M. Hoffman -- Popular media reframing of man-made disasters : a cautionary tale Gregory V. Button -- Punctuated entropy as culture-induced change : the case of the Exxon Valdez oil spill Christopher L. Dyer -- Modeling protracted drought, collateral natural disaster, and human responses in the Andes Michael E. Moseley -- Impact of and response to drought among Turkana pastoralists : implications for anthropological theory and hazards research J. Terrence McCabe -- Missing expertise, categorical politics, and chronic disasters : the case of Bhopal S. Ravi Rajan.
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Why anthropologists should study disasters Anthony Oliver-Smith and Susanna M. Hoffman -- Theorizing disasters : nature, power and culture Anthony Oliver-Smith -- Historical disaster research Virginia Garcia-Acosta -- Danger and the no-risk thesis Robert Paine -- Bounding uncertainty : the post-Chernobyl culture of radiation protection experts Sharon Stephens -- Monster and the mother : the symbolism of disaster Susanna M. Hoffman -- Popular media reframing of man-made disasters : a cautionary tale Gregory V. Button -- Punctuated entropy as culture-induced change : the case of the Exxon Valdez oil spill Christopher L. Dyer -- Modeling protracted drought, collateral natural disaster, and human responses in the Andes Michael E. Moseley -- Impact of and response to drought among Turkana pastoralists : implications for anthropological theory and hazards research J. Terrence McCabe -- Missing expertise, categorical politics, and chronic disasters : the case of Bhopal S. Ravi Rajan.

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