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Climate Change and Tradition in a Small Island State: The Rising Tide

Climate Change and Tradition in a Small Island State: The Rising Tide

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Series: Routledge Studies in Anthropology, Book 13

AnthropologyEnvironmental Studies

ISBN10: 0415832497
ISBN13: 9780415832496
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jun 24 2013
Pages: 226
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

The citizens of the Marshall Islands have been told that climate change will doom their country, and they have seen confirmatory omens in the land, air, and sea. This book investigates how grassroots Marshallese society has interpreted and responded to this threat as intimated by local observation, science communication, and Biblical exegesis. It illuminates islander agency at the intersection of the local and the global, and suggests a theory of risk perception based on ideological commitment to narratives of historical progress and decline.

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