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Title Disasters and cultural stereotypes / edited by Elya Tzanea (editor-in-chief) ; with Fang Sumei and Edwin Schmitt
Published Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2012

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 277 pages) : illustrations
Contents pt. 1. Disasters and cultural knowledge -- pt. 2. Natural, biological and technological disasters -- cultural responses -- pt. 3. Social crises -- cultural management
Summary This volume is the second attempt by a joint international research team (consisting of Bulgarian, Chinese, Russian and American ethnologists) to contribute to the domain of ecological anthropology. The editors of and contributors to this collection share the understanding that catastrophic events challenge society to rework a specific methodology, and to activate a specific resource, to adapt to and cope Other crises ecologically, socially and ideologically. The main aim of this volume is to ..
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes English
Subject Disasters -- Social aspects
Crises -- Social aspects
Emergency management -- Social aspects
Crisis management -- Social aspects
NATURE -- Natural Disasters.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Disasters & Disaster Relief.
Disasters -- Social aspects
Emergency management -- Social aspects
Form Electronic book
Author Tzaneva, Elya, 1956-
Sumei, Fang
Schmitt, Edwin
ISBN 9781443843003
1443843008
9781299658486
1299658482