Catastrophe & culture : the anthropology of disaster / edited by Susanna M. Hoffman and Anthony Oliver-Smith.
Material type: TextSeries: School of American Research advanced seminar seriesPublication details: Santa Fe, NM : School of American Research Press ; Oxford : J. Currey, c2002.Description: xii, 312 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:- 193061814X (alk. paper)
- 1930618158 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- Catastrophe and culture
- 363.34 21
- HV553 .C275 2002
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-292) and index.
1. Introduction: Why Anthropologists Should Study Disasters / Anthony Oliver-Smith and Susanna M. Hoffman -- 2. Theorizing Disasters: Nature, Power, and Culture / Anthony Oliver-Smith -- 3. Historical Disaster Research / Virginia Garcia-Acosta -- 4. Danger and the No-Risk Thesis / Robert Paine -- 5. Bounding Uncertainty: The Post-Chernobyl Culture of Radiation Protection Experts / Sharon Stephens -- 6. The Monster and the Mother: The Symbolism of Disaster / Susanna M. Hoffman -- 7. Popular Media Reframing of Man-Made Disasters: A Cautionary Tale / Gregory V. Button -- 8. Punctuated Entropy as Culture-Induced Change: The Case of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill / Christopher L. Dyer -- 9. Modeling Protracted Drought, Collateral Natural Disaster, and Human Responses in the Andes / Michael E. Moseley -- 10. Impact of and Response to Drought among Turkana Pastoralists: Implications for Anthropological Theory and Hazards Research / J. Terrence McCabe.
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