Weather, Climate, Culture
Herausgeber: Strauss, Sarah; Orlove, Benjamin S
Weather, Climate, Culture
Herausgeber: Strauss, Sarah; Orlove, Benjamin S
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Throughout history, the weather has been both feared and revered for its powerful influence over living creatures. Drawing on a wide range of case studies from around the world, this book provides an original and lively perspective on a subject that continues to have an incalculable impact on the way we live.
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Throughout history, the weather has been both feared and revered for its powerful influence over living creatures. Drawing on a wide range of case studies from around the world, this book provides an original and lively perspective on a subject that continues to have an incalculable impact on the way we live.
Produktdetails
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- Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
- Seitenzahl: 326
- Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2003
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 231mm x 154mm x 19mm
- Gewicht: 508g
- ISBN-13: 9781859736975
- ISBN-10: 1859736971
- Artikelnr.: 21967144
- Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
- Seitenzahl: 326
- Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2003
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 231mm x 154mm x 19mm
- Gewicht: 508g
- ISBN-13: 9781859736975
- ISBN-10: 1859736971
- Artikelnr.: 21967144
Sarah Strauss Assistant Professor,University of Wyoming Benjamin S. Orlove Professor of Environmental Science and Policy, University of California, Davis and Adjunct Senior Research Scientist, International Research Institute for Climate Prediction, Columbia University, New York .
Introduction1.Sarah Strauss and Ben OrloveUp in the Air: The Anthropology
of Weather and ClimateDAYS2.Jan Golinski TIME, TALK, AND THE WEATHER IN
EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN.3.Sarah Strauss Weather Wise: Speaking Folklore
to Science in Leukerbad4.Michael Paolisso Chesapeake Bay Watermen, Weather
and Blue Crabs: Cultural Models and Fishery Policies5.Todd Sanders
(En)Gendering the Weather: Rainmaking and Reproduction in Tanzania6.Trevor
Harley (U. Dundee, UK)Nice weather for the time of year: The British
obsession with the weatherYEARS7.Ben Orlove HOW PEOPLE NAME SEASONS8.John
Thornes and Gemma Wetherell Monet's 'London Series' and the Cultural
Climate of London at the turn of the Twentieth Century9.David Ellis
Changing Earth and Sky: Movement, Environmental Variability, and Responses
to El Niño in the Pio-Tura Region of Papua New Guinea10.Carla Roncoli,
Keith Ingram, Christine Jost, and Paul KirshenMeteorological Meanings:
Farmers' Interpretations of Seasonal Rainfall Forecasts in Burkina
Faso.GENERATIONS11.Tim Finan Climate Science and the Policy of Drought
Mitigation in Ceará, Northeast Brazil12.Anne Henshaw CLIMATE AND CULTURE IN
THE NORTH: THE INTERFACE OF ARCHAEOLOGY, PALEOENVIRONEMNTAL SCIENCE AND
ORAL HISTORY13.Colin West and Marcela Vasquez-Léon Testing Farmers'
Perceptions of Climate Variability: A Case Study from the Sulphur Springs
Valley, Arizona14.Gisli Pálsson and Astrid Ogilvie "It looks like
unfavourable weather is brewing":Descriptions of weather in the Sagas of
Icelanders Afterword15.Steven Rayner Domesticating Nature: Commentary on
the Anthropological Study of Weather and Climate Discourse
of Weather and ClimateDAYS2.Jan Golinski TIME, TALK, AND THE WEATHER IN
EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN.3.Sarah Strauss Weather Wise: Speaking Folklore
to Science in Leukerbad4.Michael Paolisso Chesapeake Bay Watermen, Weather
and Blue Crabs: Cultural Models and Fishery Policies5.Todd Sanders
(En)Gendering the Weather: Rainmaking and Reproduction in Tanzania6.Trevor
Harley (U. Dundee, UK)Nice weather for the time of year: The British
obsession with the weatherYEARS7.Ben Orlove HOW PEOPLE NAME SEASONS8.John
Thornes and Gemma Wetherell Monet's 'London Series' and the Cultural
Climate of London at the turn of the Twentieth Century9.David Ellis
Changing Earth and Sky: Movement, Environmental Variability, and Responses
to El Niño in the Pio-Tura Region of Papua New Guinea10.Carla Roncoli,
Keith Ingram, Christine Jost, and Paul KirshenMeteorological Meanings:
Farmers' Interpretations of Seasonal Rainfall Forecasts in Burkina
Faso.GENERATIONS11.Tim Finan Climate Science and the Policy of Drought
Mitigation in Ceará, Northeast Brazil12.Anne Henshaw CLIMATE AND CULTURE IN
THE NORTH: THE INTERFACE OF ARCHAEOLOGY, PALEOENVIRONEMNTAL SCIENCE AND
ORAL HISTORY13.Colin West and Marcela Vasquez-Léon Testing Farmers'
Perceptions of Climate Variability: A Case Study from the Sulphur Springs
Valley, Arizona14.Gisli Pálsson and Astrid Ogilvie "It looks like
unfavourable weather is brewing":Descriptions of weather in the Sagas of
Icelanders Afterword15.Steven Rayner Domesticating Nature: Commentary on
the Anthropological Study of Weather and Climate Discourse
Introduction1.Sarah Strauss and Ben OrloveUp in the Air: The Anthropology
of Weather and ClimateDAYS2.Jan Golinski TIME, TALK, AND THE WEATHER IN
EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN.3.Sarah Strauss Weather Wise: Speaking Folklore
to Science in Leukerbad4.Michael Paolisso Chesapeake Bay Watermen, Weather
and Blue Crabs: Cultural Models and Fishery Policies5.Todd Sanders
(En)Gendering the Weather: Rainmaking and Reproduction in Tanzania6.Trevor
Harley (U. Dundee, UK)Nice weather for the time of year: The British
obsession with the weatherYEARS7.Ben Orlove HOW PEOPLE NAME SEASONS8.John
Thornes and Gemma Wetherell Monet's 'London Series' and the Cultural
Climate of London at the turn of the Twentieth Century9.David Ellis
Changing Earth and Sky: Movement, Environmental Variability, and Responses
to El Niño in the Pio-Tura Region of Papua New Guinea10.Carla Roncoli,
Keith Ingram, Christine Jost, and Paul KirshenMeteorological Meanings:
Farmers' Interpretations of Seasonal Rainfall Forecasts in Burkina
Faso.GENERATIONS11.Tim Finan Climate Science and the Policy of Drought
Mitigation in Ceará, Northeast Brazil12.Anne Henshaw CLIMATE AND CULTURE IN
THE NORTH: THE INTERFACE OF ARCHAEOLOGY, PALEOENVIRONEMNTAL SCIENCE AND
ORAL HISTORY13.Colin West and Marcela Vasquez-Léon Testing Farmers'
Perceptions of Climate Variability: A Case Study from the Sulphur Springs
Valley, Arizona14.Gisli Pálsson and Astrid Ogilvie "It looks like
unfavourable weather is brewing":Descriptions of weather in the Sagas of
Icelanders Afterword15.Steven Rayner Domesticating Nature: Commentary on
the Anthropological Study of Weather and Climate Discourse
of Weather and ClimateDAYS2.Jan Golinski TIME, TALK, AND THE WEATHER IN
EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN.3.Sarah Strauss Weather Wise: Speaking Folklore
to Science in Leukerbad4.Michael Paolisso Chesapeake Bay Watermen, Weather
and Blue Crabs: Cultural Models and Fishery Policies5.Todd Sanders
(En)Gendering the Weather: Rainmaking and Reproduction in Tanzania6.Trevor
Harley (U. Dundee, UK)Nice weather for the time of year: The British
obsession with the weatherYEARS7.Ben Orlove HOW PEOPLE NAME SEASONS8.John
Thornes and Gemma Wetherell Monet's 'London Series' and the Cultural
Climate of London at the turn of the Twentieth Century9.David Ellis
Changing Earth and Sky: Movement, Environmental Variability, and Responses
to El Niño in the Pio-Tura Region of Papua New Guinea10.Carla Roncoli,
Keith Ingram, Christine Jost, and Paul KirshenMeteorological Meanings:
Farmers' Interpretations of Seasonal Rainfall Forecasts in Burkina
Faso.GENERATIONS11.Tim Finan Climate Science and the Policy of Drought
Mitigation in Ceará, Northeast Brazil12.Anne Henshaw CLIMATE AND CULTURE IN
THE NORTH: THE INTERFACE OF ARCHAEOLOGY, PALEOENVIRONEMNTAL SCIENCE AND
ORAL HISTORY13.Colin West and Marcela Vasquez-Léon Testing Farmers'
Perceptions of Climate Variability: A Case Study from the Sulphur Springs
Valley, Arizona14.Gisli Pálsson and Astrid Ogilvie "It looks like
unfavourable weather is brewing":Descriptions of weather in the Sagas of
Icelanders Afterword15.Steven Rayner Domesticating Nature: Commentary on
the Anthropological Study of Weather and Climate Discourse