Angry Earth Disaster in Anthropological Perspective

Name: Angry Earth Disaster in Anthropological Perspective
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ISBN: 9780415919876

ISBN-10: 0415919878

ISBN-13: 9780415919876

Edition: 2000

Authors: Anthony Oliver-Smith, Susanna Hoffman

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This work takes a close look at disasters and the response of victims in the immediate aftermath and over the long-run. It represents the cultural, historical and geographical scope and complexities of the problem of disaster.

Book details

List price: $63.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 10/11/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

Susanna Hoffman was a co-owner, sous chef, and maï¿½tre d' of Chez Panisse, where she met Victoria Wise. She is the author, most recently, of The Olive and the Caper, and lives in Telluride, Colorado.



Acknowledgments


Contributors


Anthropology and the Angry Earth: An Overview




Disasters, Environment, and Culture



"What Is a Disaster?": Anthropological Perspectives on a Persistent Question




Environmental Pattern, Hazards, and Culture: The Archaeological Perspective



The Effects of Explosive Volcanism on Ancient Egalitarian, Ranked, and Stratified Societies in Middle America




Convergent Catastrophe: Past Patterns and Future Implications of Collateral Natural Disasters in the Andes




The Cultural and Social Construction of Catastrophe



Peru's Five-Hundred-Year Earthquake: Vulnerability in Historical Context




Constructing Vulnerability in the First World: The Northridge Earthquake in Southern California, 1994




The Negation of Disaster: The Media Response to Oil Spills in Great Britain




Varieties of Cultural Response



The Worst of Times, the Best of Times: Toward a Model of Cultural Response to Disaster




The Brotherhood of Pain: Theoretical and Applied Perspectives on Post-Disaster Solidarity




The Regenesis of Traditional Gender Patterns in the Wake of Disaster




Vulnerability, Disaster, and Survival in Bangladesh: Three Case Studies




"Tell Them We're Hurting": Hurricane Andrew, the Culture of Response, and the Fishing Peoples of South Florida and Louisiana




Agencies, Survivors, and Reconstruction



Plan and Pattern in Reaction to Earthquake: Peru, 1970-1998




Bhopal: Vulnerability, Routinization, and the Chronic Disaster




The Phoenix Effect in Post-Disaster Recovery: An Analysis of the Economic Development Administration's Culture of Response after Hurricane Andrew




Disaster and Cultural Continuity



After Atlas Shrugs: Cultural Change or Persistence after a Disaster



Index