| Description |
xii, 312 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Series |
School of American Research advanced seminar series
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| Contents |
Why anthropologists should study disasters / Anthony Oliver-Smith and Susanna M. Hoffman -- Theorizing disasters : nature, power and culture / Anthony Oliver-Smith -- Historical disaster research / Virginia Garcia-Acosta -- Danger and the no-risk thesis / Robert Paine -- Bounding uncertainty : the post-Chernobyl culture of radiation protection experts / Sharon Stephens -- Monster and the mother : the symbolism of disaster / Susanna M. Hoffman -- Popular media reframing of man-made disasters : a cautionary tale / Gregory V. Button -- Punctuated entropy as culture-induced change : the case of the Exxon Valdez oil spill / Christopher L. Dyer -- Modeling protracted drought, collateral natural disaster, and human responses in the Andes / Michael E. Moseley -- Impact of and response to drought among Turkana pastoralists : implications for anthropological theory and hazards research / J. Terrence McCabe -- Missing expertise, categorical politics, and chronic disasters : the case of Bhopal / S. Ravi Rajan |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-292) and index |
| Notes |
Self-Renewing 2017 UoY |
| Subject |
Disasters -- Social aspects -- Congresses
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Disasters -- Research -- Congresses
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Social structure -- Congresses
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Ethnology -- Congresses
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| Author |
Hoffman, Susannah M
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Oliver-Smith, Anthony
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| LC no. |
2001054174 |
| ISBN |
1930618158 |
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9781930618152 |
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193061814X |
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9781930618145 |
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0852559259 |
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9780852559253 |
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0852559267 |
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9780852559260 |
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