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Title Wait five minutes : weatherlore in the twenty-first century / edited by Shelley Ingram and Willow G. Mullins
Published Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2023]

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 301 pages) illustrations
Contents Acknowledgments -- Introduction: and now, the weather -- Introduction: the sky is telling it -- Chapter 1. Divergent weatherlore in Christian hermeneutics: climate change and vernacular rhetoric in our current environmental crisis / Emma Frances Bloomfield and Sheila Bock -- Chapter 2. "Of biblical proportions": flood motifs in personal narratives of Katrina survivors / Kate Parker Horigan -- Chapter 3. In the bones: prognostication and weather in the twenty-first century / Willow G. Mullins -- Chapter 4. Contrails to chemtrails: atmospheric scientists respond to challenging belief narratives / Anne Pryor -- Chapter 5. From clockwork weatherman to atomic environmentalist / Máirt Hanley -- Introduction: the romance of the weather -- Chapter 6: The world of sensible seasons had come undone": climate change and regional folklore in Barbara Kingsolver's "Flight behavior" / Hannah Chapple -- Chapter 7. Early modern special snowflakes / Christine Hoffmann -- Chapter 8. Mothering the storm: Black girlhood and communal care in literature of Katrina -- Jennifer Morrison and Shelley Ingram -- Chapter 9: "You don't need a weatherman": Bob Dylan's windlore / James I. Deutsch -- Chapter 10: "I'll never forget the thunderstorm of 1960, I think it was": storm stories -- / Lena Marander-Eklund -- Introduction: feeding the storm -- Chapter 11. Framing the flood: strategic environmental storytelling in Appalachia -- / Jordan Lovejoy -- Chapter 12. Weathering the storm: folk ideas about character -- / John Laudun -- Chapter 13: It always rains on a picnic: weatherlore and community narrative at St. Patrick's Irish picnic and homecoming / Kristen Bradley -- Chapter 14. The folk wisdom of lawns / Todd Richardson -- Chapter 15. Canning for the apocalypse: climate change, zombies, and the early twenty-first-century canning renaissance / Claire Schmidt -- About the contributors -- Index
Summary "The weather governs our lives. It fills gaps in conversations, determines our dress, and influences our architecture. No matter how much our lives may have moved indoors, no matter how much we may rely on technology, we still monitor the weather. Wait Five Minutes: Weatherlore in the Twenty-First Century draws from folkloric, literary, and scientific theory to offer up new ways of thinking about this most ancient of phenomena. Weatherlore is a concept that describes the folk beliefs and traditions about the weather that are passed down casually among groups of people. Weatherlore can be predictive, such as the belief that more black than brown fuzz on a woolly bear caterpillar signals a harsh winter. It can be the familiar commentary that eases daily social interactions, such as asking, "Is it hot (or cold) enough for you?" Other times, it is simply ubiquitous: "If you don't like the weather, wait five minutes and it will change." From detailing personal experiences at picnics and suburban lawns to critically analyzing storm stories, novels, and flood legends, contributors offer engaging multidisciplinary perspectives on weatherlore. As we move further into the twenty-first century, an increasing awareness of climate change and its impacts on daily life calls for a folkloristic reckoning with the weather and a rising need to examine vernacular understandings of weather and climate. Weatherlore helps us understand and shape global political conversations about climate change and biopolitics at the same time that it influences individual, group, and regional lives and identities. We use weather, and thus its folklore, to make meaning of ourselves, our groups, and, quite literally, our world"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 15, 2023)
Subject Weather -- Folklore
Weather forecasting.
Meteorology.
Meteorologists.
Climatic changes.
Global environmental change.
Floods -- Environmental aspects
meteorology.
meteorologists.
climate change.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Folklore & Mythology
Climatic changes
Floods -- Environmental aspects
Global environmental change
Meteorologists
Meteorology
Weather -- Folklore
Weather forecasting
Earth sciences.
Science.
Form Electronic book
Author Ingram, Shelley, 1979- editor
Mullins, Willow (Willow G.), editor
LC no. 2022061301
ISBN 9781496844408
1496844408
9781496844378
1496844378
9781496844385
1496844386
9781496844392
1496844394
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