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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

AnthropologyEnvironmental Studies

ISBN10: 1138952818
ISBN13: 9781138952812
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Oct 12 2015
Pages: 244
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.52 Width: 6.00 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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