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Anthropology and Climate Change From Encounters to Actions

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ISBN-10: 1598743341

ISBN-13: 9781598743340

Edition: 2009

Authors: Susan A. Crate, Mark Nuttall, Susan Alexandra Crate, Susan Alexandra Crate

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The first book to comprehensively assess anthropologys engagement with climate change, this pioneering volume both maps out exciting trajectories for research and issues a call to action. Chapters in part one are systematic research reviews, covering the relationship between culture and climate from prehistoric times to the present; changing anthropological discourse on climate and environment; the diversity of environmental and sociocultural changes currently occurring around the globe; and the unique methodological and epistemological tools anthropologists bring to bear on climate research. Part two includes a series of case studies that highlights leading-edge researchincluding some…    
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Book details

List price: $36.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 5/15/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

Susan A. Crate is an anthropologist in the Department of Environmental Science and Policy at George Mason University and author of Cows, Kin and Globalization: The Ethnography of Sustainability (AltaMira Press 2006)Mark Nuttall holds the Henry Marshall Tory Chair in the Department of Anthropology, University of Alberta. He is editor of the landmark, three-volume Encyclopedia of the Arctic (Routledge 2005) and author or editor of many other books.

Introduction: Anthropology and Climate Change
Climate and Culture
Human Agency, Climate Change, and Culture: An Archaeological Perspective
Climate and Weather Discourse in Anthropology: From Determinism to Uncertain Futures
Fielding Climate Change in Cultural Anthropology
Climate Change and Population Displacement: Disasters and Diasporas in the Twenty-first Century
Anthropological Encounters
Gone the Bull of Winter? Contemplating Climate Change's Cultural Implications in Northeastern Siberia, Russia
Sea Ice: The Sociocultural Dimensions of a Melting Environment in the Arctic
Global Models, Local Risks: Responding to Climate Change in the Swiss Alps
Storm Warnings: The Role of Anthropology in Adapting to Sea-Level Rise in Southwestern Bangladesh
Salmon Nation: Climate Change and Tribal Sovereignty
Global Averages, Local Extremes: The Subtleties and Complexities of Climate Change in Papua New Guinea
Talking and Not Talking about Climate Change in Northwestern Alaska
Opal Waters, Rising Seas: How Sociocultural Inequality Reduces Resilience to Climate Change among Indigenous Australians
The Glaciers of the Andes are Melting: Indigenous and Anthropological Knowledge Merge in Restoring Water Resources
The Governance of Vulnerability: Climate Change and Agency in Tuvalu, South Pacific
From Local to Global: Perceptions and Realities of Environmental Change Among Kalahari San
Anthropological Actions
Consuming Ourselves to Death: The Anthropology of Consumer Culture and Climate Change
Global Change Policymaking from Inside the Beltway: Engaging Anthropology
Living in a World of Movement: Human Resilience to Environmental Instability in Greenland Environmental Instability in Greenland
Where Managerial and Scientific Knowledge Meet Sociocultural Systems: Local Realities, Global Responsibilities
Participatory Action Research: Community Partnership with Social and Physical Scientists
Terms of Engagement: An Arctic Perspective on the Narratives and Politics of Global Climate Change
Shifting the University: Faculty Engagement and Curriculum Change
Car Culture and Decision-Making: Choice and Climate Change
Anthropologists Engaging in Climate Change Education and Outreach: Curating. Thin Ice-Inuit Traditions within a Changing Environment
Epilogue: Anthropology, Science, and Climate Change Policy
About the Contributors
Index