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Author(s): Sarah Strauss, Benjamin S. Orlove
ISBN(s): 9781859736975, 1859736971
Edition: illustrated edition
File Details: PDF, 3.23 MB
Year: 2004
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 1859736971

ISBN 13: 9781859736975

Author: Sarah Strauss

The document provides information about the book ‘Weather, Climate, Culture’ edited by Sarah Strauss and Ben Orlove, which explores the interplay between weather, climate, and human culture. It includes various chapters discussing historical and contemporary perspectives on how weather influences social aspects, folklore, and environmental policies. The book is available for download in PDF format and contains bibliographical references and an index.
 

Table of contents: 

INTRODUCTION

1 Up in the Air: The Anthropology of Weather and Climate Sarah Strauss and Ben Orlove

DAYS

2 Time, Talk, and the Weather in Eighteenth-Century Britain Jan Golinski

3 Weather Wise: Speaking Folklore to Science in Leukerbad Sarah Strauss

4 Chesapeake Bay Watermen, Weather, and Blue Crabs: Cultural Models and Fishery Policies

Michael Paolisso

5 (En)Gendering the Weather: Rainmaking and Reproduction in Tanzania Todd Sanders

6 Nice Weather for the Time of Year: The British Obsession with the Weather Trevor A. Harley

YEARS

7 How People Name Seasons

Ben Orlove

8 Monet’s ‘London Series’ and the Cultural Climate of London at

the Turn of the Twentieth Century

John E. Thornes and Gemma Metherell

9 Changing Earth and Sky: Movement, Environmental Variability, and Responses to El Niño in the Pio-Tura Region of Papua

New Guinea

David M. Ellis

10 Meteorological Meanings: Farmers’ Interpretations of Seasonal

Rainfall Forecasts in Burkina Faso

Carla Roncoli, Keith Ingram, Christine Jost and Paul Kirshen

GENERATIONS

11 Climate Science and the Policy of Drought Mitigation in Ceará,

Northeast Brazil

Timothy J. Finan

12 Climate and Culture in the North: The Interface of Archacology, Paleoenvironmental Science, and Oral History

Anne Henshaw

13 Testing Farmers’ Perceptions of Climate Variability: A Case Study from the Sulphur Springs Valley, Arizona

Colin Thor West and Marcela Vásquez-León

14 Mood, Magic, and Metaphor: Allusions to Weather and Climate in the Sagas of Icelanders

Astrid E. J. Ogilvie and Gísli Pálsson

AFTERWORD

15 Domesticating Nature: Commentary on the Anthropological Study of Weather and Climate Discourse

Steve Rayner

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