Screen LibraryWeather, climate, culture
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| Group Author: | ; |
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| Published: |
Berg,
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| Publisher Address: | Oxford New York |
| Publication Dates: | 2003. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | xviii, 307 p.: ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
1859736920 (HB) 1859736971 (PB) |
| Index Number: | P4 |
| CLC: | P4-05 |
| Call Number: | P4-05/W362 |
| Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. Up in the air : the anthropology of weather and climate / Sarah Strauss and Ben Orlove -- Time, talk, and the weather in eighteenth-century Britain / Jan Golinski -- Weather wise : speaking folklore to science in Leukerbad / Sarah Strauss -- Chesapeake Bay watermen, weather, and blue crabs : cultural models and fishery policies / Michael Paolisso -- (En)gendering the weather : rainmaking and reproduction in Tanzania / Todd Sanders -- Nice weather for the time of year : the British obsession with the weather / Trevor A. Harley -- How people name seasons / Ben Orlove -- Monet's 'London series' and the cultural climate of London at the turn of the twentieth century / John E. Thornes and Gemma Metherell -- Changing earth and sky : movement, environmental variability, and responses to El Ni?no in the Pio-Tura region of Papua New Guinea / David M. Ellis -- Meteorological meanings : farmers' interpretations of seasonal rainfall forecasts in Burkina Faso / Carla Roncoli ... [et al.] -- Climate science and the policy of drought mitigation in Cearaa, Northeast Brazil / Timothy J. Finan -- Climate and culture in the North : the interface of archaeology, paleoenvironmental science, and oral history / Anne Henshaw -- Testing farmers' perceptions of climate variability : a case study from the Sulphur Springs Valley, Arizona / Colin Thor West and Marcela Vaasquez-Leaon -- Mood, magic, and metaphor : allusions to weather and climate in the Sagas of Icelanders / Astrid E. Ogilvie and Gaisli Paalsson -- Domesticating nature : commentary on the anthropological study of weather and climate discourse / Steve Rayner. |