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Catastrophe and Culture: The Anthropology of Disaster

Catastrophe and Culture: The Anthropology of Disaster

Oliver-Smith, Anthony
Hoffman, Susanna M.

Paperback

Series: School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar

Environmental StudiesGeneral SociologyGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1930618158
ISBN13: 9781930618152
Publisher: School for Advanced Research Press
Published: Mar 1 2002
Pages: 328
Weight: 0.97
Height: 0.72 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.12
Language: English

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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