The Anthropology of Climate Change

<p>This timely anthology brings together for the first time the most important ancient, medieval, Enlightenment, and modern scholarship for a complete anthropological evaluation of the relationship between culture and climate change.</p> <ul> <li>Brings together for the first time the most important classical works and contemporary scholarship for a complete historical anthropological evaluation of the relationship between culture and climate change</li> <li>Covers the historic and prehistoric records of human impact from and response to prior periods of climate change, including the impact and response to climate change at the local level</li> <li>Discusses the impact on global debates about climate change from North-South post-colonial histories and the social dimensions of the science of climate change.</li> <li>Includes coverage of topics such as environmental determinism, climatic events as social catalysts, climatic disasters and societal collapse, and ethno-meteorology</li> <li>An ideal text for courses in climate change, human/cultural ecology, environmental anthropology and archaeology, disaster studies,  environmental sciences, science and technology studies, history of science, and conservation and development studies</li> </ul>