The Angry Earth
Disaster in Anthropological Perspective
Herausgeber: Oliver-Smith, Anthony; Hoffman, Susanna; Hoffman, Susanna M
The Angry Earth
Disaster in Anthropological Perspective
Herausgeber: Oliver-Smith, Anthony; Hoffman, Susanna; Hoffman, Susanna M
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This book explores how various cultures in different historical moments have responded to calamity. It demonstrates the relevance of studying disaster from an anthropological perspective and provide a valuable resource not only for anthropologists but for other fields concerned with education, policy and practice.
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This book explores how various cultures in different historical moments have responded to calamity. It demonstrates the relevance of studying disaster from an anthropological perspective and provide a valuable resource not only for anthropologists but for other fields concerned with education, policy and practice.
Produktdetails
- Produktdetails
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- 2 ed
- Seitenzahl: 402
- Erscheinungstermin: 24. Dezember 2019
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 246mm x 174mm x 22mm
- Gewicht: 728g
- ISBN-13: 9781138237841
- ISBN-10: 1138237841
- Artikelnr.: 58483407
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- 2 ed
- Seitenzahl: 402
- Erscheinungstermin: 24. Dezember 2019
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 246mm x 174mm x 22mm
- Gewicht: 728g
- ISBN-13: 9781138237841
- ISBN-10: 1138237841
- Artikelnr.: 58483407
Anthony Oliver-Smith is a professor emeritus in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Florida, USA. He has done anthropological research and consultation on issues relating to disasters and involuntary resettlement in Peru, Honduras, India, Brazil, Jamaica, Mexico, Japan, Panama, and the United States since the 1970s. His current work is concerned with climate change, disasters, displacement, and migration. He is a recipient of the Bronislaw Malinowski Lifetime Achievement Award given by the Society for Applied Anthropology. Susanna M. Hoffman is an internationally recognized expert on disaster. She is the author, co-author, and editor of twelve books, two ethnographic films, and more than forty articles and chapters. She initiated the Risk and Disaster Thematic Interest Group for the Society for Applied Anthropology, and is the founder and chair of the Risk and Disaster Commission for the International Union of Anthropology and Ethnographic Sciences. She was the first recipient of the Fulbright Foundation's Aegean Initiative dealing with the Greek and Turkish earthquakes, and helped write the United Nations Statement on Women and Disasters. She is a frequent national and international speaker, and also serves on the Task Force on World Food Problems.
List of Figures and Tables
Acknowledgements
Note on Contributors
Introduction to the Second Edition of The Angry Earth: From Introduction to
Widespread Reception (Susanna M. Hoffman and Anthony Oliver-Smith)
Introduction to the First Edition. Anthropology and the Angry Earth: An
Overview (Susanna M. Hoffman and Anthony Oliver-Smith)
I. DISASTERS, ENVIRONMENT AND CULTURE
1. What is a Disaster? Anthropological Perspectives on a Persistent
Question (Anthony Oliver-Smith)
Postscript: Hazards of Nature, Disasters of Society
II. ENVIRONMENTAL PATTERN, HAZARDS AND CULTURE: THE ARCHEOLOGICAL
PERSPECTIVE
2. Convergent Catastrophes: Geoarcheological Perspectives on Collateral
Natural Disasters and Cultural Change in the Central Andes (Michael
E. Moseley)
Postscript: Convergent Catastrophe: Past Patterns and Future
Implications of Collateral natural Disaster in the Andres
3. Explosive Volcanic Eruptions and Societal Responses: A Comparative
Archeological Study in Middle America (Payson Sheets)
Postscript: When the Natural Hazard Becomes a Cultural Disaster
III. THE CULTURAL CONSTRUCTION OF CATASTROPHE
4. Peru's Five-Hundred Year Earthquake: Vulnerability in Historical
Context (Anthony Oliver-Smith)
Postscript: The Five Hundred Year Earthquake: Seeking Root Causes and
Deep Drivers
5. Examining Vulnerability to Natural Disasters: A Comparative Analysis
of Four Southern California Communities After the Northridge
Earthquake (Lois Stanford and Robert Bolin)
Postscript: Vulnerability Then and Now
6. The Negation of a Disaster: The Media Response to Oils Spills in
Great Britain (Gregory V. Button)
Postscript: Continued Disavowal and The Advent of Social Media
IV. HOW CULTURES RESPOND
1. "The Worst of Times, the Best of Times": Toward a Model of Cultural
Response to Disaster (Susanna M. Hoffman)
Postscript: Behind the States and Act Four: More to the Worst of
Times, the Best of Times Model
2. Vulnerability, Disaster, and Survival in Bangladesh: Three Case
Studies (Mohammad Q. Zaman)
Postscript: Integrated Approach to Risk Reduction and Development
3. "Tell Them We're Hurting": Hurricane Andrew, the Culture of Response,
and the Fishing Peoples of South Florida and Louisiana (Christopher
L. Dyer and James M. McGoodwin)
Postscript: Recognizing the Diversity of Disaster Impacts: The Need
for Response Protocols, Anticipation, and Human Rights
4. Epidemics and Disasters: From the Venezuela Delta Amacuro to the
Mississippi Wetlands (Charles Briggs and Anne M. Lovell)
5. Drought: A Challenge to Livelihoods, Sustainability, and Resilience (
J. Terrence McCabe and Amy Quandt)
6. The Brotherhood of Pain: Emotion and Social Organization in the
Crisis of Disaster (Anthony Oliver-Smith)
Postscript: Communitas and Resilience
7. The Regenesis of Traditional Gender Patterns in the Wake of Disaster
(Susanna M. Hoffman)
Postscript: Still With Us After all These Years; But Slowly Changing
V. AGENCIES, SURVIVORS AND CULTURE
8. Plan and Pattern in Reaction to Earthquake: Peru, 1970-1998 (Paul L.
Doughty)
Postscript: Revisiting a Scene of Disaster, Again
9. Bhopal and Beyond: An Anthropology of Relief and Rehabilitation
Efforts and Prospects for a Socially Relevant Political Ecology of
Disaster Management (Ravi Rajan)
Postscript: The Bhopal Gas Disaster Three Decades On
10. The Phoenix Effect in Post-Disaster Recovery: An Analysis of the
Economic Development Administration's Culture of Response After
Hurricane Andrew (Christopher L. Dyer)
Postscript: The Phoenix Effect Revisited: Hurricane Andrew, South
Florida, and the Rise of Punctuated Entropy
11. Disaster Anthropology in Non-Governmental Organizations (Adam Koons)
12. Disaster and Climate Change-related Displacements and Resettlements:
Cultural and Political Ecologies of Space, Power, and Practice (A.J.
Faas, Roberto Barrios, Elizabeth Marino, and Julie Maldonado)
VI. DISASTER AND CULTURAL CONTINUITY
13. Islands on an Angry Earth: Climate Change, Disasters, and
Implications for Two Island Communities (Heather Lazrus and Carlos
Arenas)
14. After Atlas Shrugs: Cultural Persistence and Perpetuation in the
Context of Disaster (Susanna Hoffman)
Postscript: The Question of Culture Continuity and Change After a Disaster
Twenty Years Later
Index
Acknowledgements
Note on Contributors
Introduction to the Second Edition of The Angry Earth: From Introduction to
Widespread Reception (Susanna M. Hoffman and Anthony Oliver-Smith)
Introduction to the First Edition. Anthropology and the Angry Earth: An
Overview (Susanna M. Hoffman and Anthony Oliver-Smith)
I. DISASTERS, ENVIRONMENT AND CULTURE
1. What is a Disaster? Anthropological Perspectives on a Persistent
Question (Anthony Oliver-Smith)
Postscript: Hazards of Nature, Disasters of Society
II. ENVIRONMENTAL PATTERN, HAZARDS AND CULTURE: THE ARCHEOLOGICAL
PERSPECTIVE
2. Convergent Catastrophes: Geoarcheological Perspectives on Collateral
Natural Disasters and Cultural Change in the Central Andes (Michael
E. Moseley)
Postscript: Convergent Catastrophe: Past Patterns and Future
Implications of Collateral natural Disaster in the Andres
3. Explosive Volcanic Eruptions and Societal Responses: A Comparative
Archeological Study in Middle America (Payson Sheets)
Postscript: When the Natural Hazard Becomes a Cultural Disaster
III. THE CULTURAL CONSTRUCTION OF CATASTROPHE
4. Peru's Five-Hundred Year Earthquake: Vulnerability in Historical
Context (Anthony Oliver-Smith)
Postscript: The Five Hundred Year Earthquake: Seeking Root Causes and
Deep Drivers
5. Examining Vulnerability to Natural Disasters: A Comparative Analysis
of Four Southern California Communities After the Northridge
Earthquake (Lois Stanford and Robert Bolin)
Postscript: Vulnerability Then and Now
6. The Negation of a Disaster: The Media Response to Oils Spills in
Great Britain (Gregory V. Button)
Postscript: Continued Disavowal and The Advent of Social Media
IV. HOW CULTURES RESPOND
1. "The Worst of Times, the Best of Times": Toward a Model of Cultural
Response to Disaster (Susanna M. Hoffman)
Postscript: Behind the States and Act Four: More to the Worst of
Times, the Best of Times Model
2. Vulnerability, Disaster, and Survival in Bangladesh: Three Case
Studies (Mohammad Q. Zaman)
Postscript: Integrated Approach to Risk Reduction and Development
3. "Tell Them We're Hurting": Hurricane Andrew, the Culture of Response,
and the Fishing Peoples of South Florida and Louisiana (Christopher
L. Dyer and James M. McGoodwin)
Postscript: Recognizing the Diversity of Disaster Impacts: The Need
for Response Protocols, Anticipation, and Human Rights
4. Epidemics and Disasters: From the Venezuela Delta Amacuro to the
Mississippi Wetlands (Charles Briggs and Anne M. Lovell)
5. Drought: A Challenge to Livelihoods, Sustainability, and Resilience (
J. Terrence McCabe and Amy Quandt)
6. The Brotherhood of Pain: Emotion and Social Organization in the
Crisis of Disaster (Anthony Oliver-Smith)
Postscript: Communitas and Resilience
7. The Regenesis of Traditional Gender Patterns in the Wake of Disaster
(Susanna M. Hoffman)
Postscript: Still With Us After all These Years; But Slowly Changing
V. AGENCIES, SURVIVORS AND CULTURE
8. Plan and Pattern in Reaction to Earthquake: Peru, 1970-1998 (Paul L.
Doughty)
Postscript: Revisiting a Scene of Disaster, Again
9. Bhopal and Beyond: An Anthropology of Relief and Rehabilitation
Efforts and Prospects for a Socially Relevant Political Ecology of
Disaster Management (Ravi Rajan)
Postscript: The Bhopal Gas Disaster Three Decades On
10. The Phoenix Effect in Post-Disaster Recovery: An Analysis of the
Economic Development Administration's Culture of Response After
Hurricane Andrew (Christopher L. Dyer)
Postscript: The Phoenix Effect Revisited: Hurricane Andrew, South
Florida, and the Rise of Punctuated Entropy
11. Disaster Anthropology in Non-Governmental Organizations (Adam Koons)
12. Disaster and Climate Change-related Displacements and Resettlements:
Cultural and Political Ecologies of Space, Power, and Practice (A.J.
Faas, Roberto Barrios, Elizabeth Marino, and Julie Maldonado)
VI. DISASTER AND CULTURAL CONTINUITY
13. Islands on an Angry Earth: Climate Change, Disasters, and
Implications for Two Island Communities (Heather Lazrus and Carlos
Arenas)
14. After Atlas Shrugs: Cultural Persistence and Perpetuation in the
Context of Disaster (Susanna Hoffman)
Postscript: The Question of Culture Continuity and Change After a Disaster
Twenty Years Later
Index
List of Figures and Tables
Acknowledgements
Note on Contributors
Introduction to the Second Edition of The Angry Earth: From Introduction to
Widespread Reception (Susanna M. Hoffman and Anthony Oliver-Smith)
Introduction to the First Edition. Anthropology and the Angry Earth: An
Overview (Susanna M. Hoffman and Anthony Oliver-Smith)
I. DISASTERS, ENVIRONMENT AND CULTURE
1. What is a Disaster? Anthropological Perspectives on a Persistent
Question (Anthony Oliver-Smith)
Postscript: Hazards of Nature, Disasters of Society
II. ENVIRONMENTAL PATTERN, HAZARDS AND CULTURE: THE ARCHEOLOGICAL
PERSPECTIVE
2. Convergent Catastrophes: Geoarcheological Perspectives on Collateral
Natural Disasters and Cultural Change in the Central Andes (Michael
E. Moseley)
Postscript: Convergent Catastrophe: Past Patterns and Future
Implications of Collateral natural Disaster in the Andres
3. Explosive Volcanic Eruptions and Societal Responses: A Comparative
Archeological Study in Middle America (Payson Sheets)
Postscript: When the Natural Hazard Becomes a Cultural Disaster
III. THE CULTURAL CONSTRUCTION OF CATASTROPHE
4. Peru's Five-Hundred Year Earthquake: Vulnerability in Historical
Context (Anthony Oliver-Smith)
Postscript: The Five Hundred Year Earthquake: Seeking Root Causes and
Deep Drivers
5. Examining Vulnerability to Natural Disasters: A Comparative Analysis
of Four Southern California Communities After the Northridge
Earthquake (Lois Stanford and Robert Bolin)
Postscript: Vulnerability Then and Now
6. The Negation of a Disaster: The Media Response to Oils Spills in
Great Britain (Gregory V. Button)
Postscript: Continued Disavowal and The Advent of Social Media
IV. HOW CULTURES RESPOND
1. "The Worst of Times, the Best of Times": Toward a Model of Cultural
Response to Disaster (Susanna M. Hoffman)
Postscript: Behind the States and Act Four: More to the Worst of
Times, the Best of Times Model
2. Vulnerability, Disaster, and Survival in Bangladesh: Three Case
Studies (Mohammad Q. Zaman)
Postscript: Integrated Approach to Risk Reduction and Development
3. "Tell Them We're Hurting": Hurricane Andrew, the Culture of Response,
and the Fishing Peoples of South Florida and Louisiana (Christopher
L. Dyer and James M. McGoodwin)
Postscript: Recognizing the Diversity of Disaster Impacts: The Need
for Response Protocols, Anticipation, and Human Rights
4. Epidemics and Disasters: From the Venezuela Delta Amacuro to the
Mississippi Wetlands (Charles Briggs and Anne M. Lovell)
5. Drought: A Challenge to Livelihoods, Sustainability, and Resilience (
J. Terrence McCabe and Amy Quandt)
6. The Brotherhood of Pain: Emotion and Social Organization in the
Crisis of Disaster (Anthony Oliver-Smith)
Postscript: Communitas and Resilience
7. The Regenesis of Traditional Gender Patterns in the Wake of Disaster
(Susanna M. Hoffman)
Postscript: Still With Us After all These Years; But Slowly Changing
V. AGENCIES, SURVIVORS AND CULTURE
8. Plan and Pattern in Reaction to Earthquake: Peru, 1970-1998 (Paul L.
Doughty)
Postscript: Revisiting a Scene of Disaster, Again
9. Bhopal and Beyond: An Anthropology of Relief and Rehabilitation
Efforts and Prospects for a Socially Relevant Political Ecology of
Disaster Management (Ravi Rajan)
Postscript: The Bhopal Gas Disaster Three Decades On
10. The Phoenix Effect in Post-Disaster Recovery: An Analysis of the
Economic Development Administration's Culture of Response After
Hurricane Andrew (Christopher L. Dyer)
Postscript: The Phoenix Effect Revisited: Hurricane Andrew, South
Florida, and the Rise of Punctuated Entropy
11. Disaster Anthropology in Non-Governmental Organizations (Adam Koons)
12. Disaster and Climate Change-related Displacements and Resettlements:
Cultural and Political Ecologies of Space, Power, and Practice (A.J.
Faas, Roberto Barrios, Elizabeth Marino, and Julie Maldonado)
VI. DISASTER AND CULTURAL CONTINUITY
13. Islands on an Angry Earth: Climate Change, Disasters, and
Implications for Two Island Communities (Heather Lazrus and Carlos
Arenas)
14. After Atlas Shrugs: Cultural Persistence and Perpetuation in the
Context of Disaster (Susanna Hoffman)
Postscript: The Question of Culture Continuity and Change After a Disaster
Twenty Years Later
Index
Acknowledgements
Note on Contributors
Introduction to the Second Edition of The Angry Earth: From Introduction to
Widespread Reception (Susanna M. Hoffman and Anthony Oliver-Smith)
Introduction to the First Edition. Anthropology and the Angry Earth: An
Overview (Susanna M. Hoffman and Anthony Oliver-Smith)
I. DISASTERS, ENVIRONMENT AND CULTURE
1. What is a Disaster? Anthropological Perspectives on a Persistent
Question (Anthony Oliver-Smith)
Postscript: Hazards of Nature, Disasters of Society
II. ENVIRONMENTAL PATTERN, HAZARDS AND CULTURE: THE ARCHEOLOGICAL
PERSPECTIVE
2. Convergent Catastrophes: Geoarcheological Perspectives on Collateral
Natural Disasters and Cultural Change in the Central Andes (Michael
E. Moseley)
Postscript: Convergent Catastrophe: Past Patterns and Future
Implications of Collateral natural Disaster in the Andres
3. Explosive Volcanic Eruptions and Societal Responses: A Comparative
Archeological Study in Middle America (Payson Sheets)
Postscript: When the Natural Hazard Becomes a Cultural Disaster
III. THE CULTURAL CONSTRUCTION OF CATASTROPHE
4. Peru's Five-Hundred Year Earthquake: Vulnerability in Historical
Context (Anthony Oliver-Smith)
Postscript: The Five Hundred Year Earthquake: Seeking Root Causes and
Deep Drivers
5. Examining Vulnerability to Natural Disasters: A Comparative Analysis
of Four Southern California Communities After the Northridge
Earthquake (Lois Stanford and Robert Bolin)
Postscript: Vulnerability Then and Now
6. The Negation of a Disaster: The Media Response to Oils Spills in
Great Britain (Gregory V. Button)
Postscript: Continued Disavowal and The Advent of Social Media
IV. HOW CULTURES RESPOND
1. "The Worst of Times, the Best of Times": Toward a Model of Cultural
Response to Disaster (Susanna M. Hoffman)
Postscript: Behind the States and Act Four: More to the Worst of
Times, the Best of Times Model
2. Vulnerability, Disaster, and Survival in Bangladesh: Three Case
Studies (Mohammad Q. Zaman)
Postscript: Integrated Approach to Risk Reduction and Development
3. "Tell Them We're Hurting": Hurricane Andrew, the Culture of Response,
and the Fishing Peoples of South Florida and Louisiana (Christopher
L. Dyer and James M. McGoodwin)
Postscript: Recognizing the Diversity of Disaster Impacts: The Need
for Response Protocols, Anticipation, and Human Rights
4. Epidemics and Disasters: From the Venezuela Delta Amacuro to the
Mississippi Wetlands (Charles Briggs and Anne M. Lovell)
5. Drought: A Challenge to Livelihoods, Sustainability, and Resilience (
J. Terrence McCabe and Amy Quandt)
6. The Brotherhood of Pain: Emotion and Social Organization in the
Crisis of Disaster (Anthony Oliver-Smith)
Postscript: Communitas and Resilience
7. The Regenesis of Traditional Gender Patterns in the Wake of Disaster
(Susanna M. Hoffman)
Postscript: Still With Us After all These Years; But Slowly Changing
V. AGENCIES, SURVIVORS AND CULTURE
8. Plan and Pattern in Reaction to Earthquake: Peru, 1970-1998 (Paul L.
Doughty)
Postscript: Revisiting a Scene of Disaster, Again
9. Bhopal and Beyond: An Anthropology of Relief and Rehabilitation
Efforts and Prospects for a Socially Relevant Political Ecology of
Disaster Management (Ravi Rajan)
Postscript: The Bhopal Gas Disaster Three Decades On
10. The Phoenix Effect in Post-Disaster Recovery: An Analysis of the
Economic Development Administration's Culture of Response After
Hurricane Andrew (Christopher L. Dyer)
Postscript: The Phoenix Effect Revisited: Hurricane Andrew, South
Florida, and the Rise of Punctuated Entropy
11. Disaster Anthropology in Non-Governmental Organizations (Adam Koons)
12. Disaster and Climate Change-related Displacements and Resettlements:
Cultural and Political Ecologies of Space, Power, and Practice (A.J.
Faas, Roberto Barrios, Elizabeth Marino, and Julie Maldonado)
VI. DISASTER AND CULTURAL CONTINUITY
13. Islands on an Angry Earth: Climate Change, Disasters, and
Implications for Two Island Communities (Heather Lazrus and Carlos
Arenas)
14. After Atlas Shrugs: Cultural Persistence and Perpetuation in the
Context of Disaster (Susanna Hoffman)
Postscript: The Question of Culture Continuity and Change After a Disaster
Twenty Years Later
Index