Cultural Models of Nature

Primary Food Producers and Climate Change
Herausgeber: Bennardo, Giovanni

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Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on the ethnographic experience of the contributors, this volume explores the Cultural Models of Nature found in a range of food-producing communities located in climate-change affected areas. These Cultural Models represent specific organizations of the etic categories underlying the concept of Nature (i.e. plants, animals, the physical environment, the weather, humans, and the supernatural). The adoption of a common methodology across the research projects allows the drawing of meaningful cross-cultural comparisons between these communities. The research will be of interest to scholars and policymakers actively involved in research and solution-providing in the climate change arena.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. April 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 625g
• ISBN-13: 9780815356585
• ISBN-10: 0815356587
• Artikelnr.: 56229382

Autorenporträt

Giovanni Bennardo is Presidential Research Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Cognitive Studies Initiative and Environment, Sustainability, and Energy Institute at Northern Illinois University, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Cultural Models of Nature of Primary Food Producers in
Communities Affected by Climate Change 1. Vernacular Explanations of
Rainfall Variability in Highland Ethiopia 2. Cultural Models of Nature in
Tonga (Polynesia) 3. "Plants are Cooking Under the Soil": Food Production,
Models of Nature, and Climate-Change Perceptions among Indigenous Peasant
Communities (Amazonia, Brazil) 4. Lithuanian Farmers in a Time of Economic
and Environmental Ambiguity 5. Ecuadorian Quichua-Speaking Farmers'
Cultural Models of Climate, Change, and Morality 6. Cultural Models of
Nature and Divinity in a Rain-Fed Farming Village of Punjab, Pakistan 7.
The Salience of Woodland in the Dolomites (Italian Alps) 8. Human Nature of
Nature: Cultural Models of Food Production and Nature in the Northern Kanto
Plain of Japan 9. Domesticating Categories of the Wild Environment:
Eliciting Cultural Models of Nature among Hai//om 10. The Earth is Getting
Old: Personification of Climate and Environmental Change by Tagalog
Fishermen 11. Flowing Between Certainty and Uncertainty Rhythmically:
Spirits' Power and Human Efforts in a Kachin Cultural Model of Nature and
Environment in Southwest China 12. Conclusion: Comparison of Cultural
Models of Nature and the Role of Space in Cognition