The angry earth : disaster in anthropological perspective / edited by Anthony Oliver-Smith and Susanna M. Hoffman.

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Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Routledge, 1999.Description: xiii, 334p. : ill. , maps ; 23 cmISBN:

0415919878 (pb) ; 041591986X (hb)

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DDC classification:

363.34 21

LOC classification:

HV553 .A585 1999

Contents:

Subject: This collection is the first to adequately represent the cultural, historical, and geographical scope and complexities of the problem of disaster. it introduces a range of useful perspectives and arguments, with compelling examples.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	Australian Emergency Management Library	BOOK	363.34 ANG (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		011202869

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Disasters, environment, and culture -- Environmental pattern, hazards, and culture: the archaeological perspective -- The cultural and social construction of catastrophe -- Varieties of cultural response -- Agencies, survivors, and reconstruction -- Disaster and cultural continuity

This collection is the first to adequately represent the cultural, historical, and geographical scope and complexities of the problem of disaster. it introduces a range of useful perspectives and arguments, with compelling examples.

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