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Weather, climate, culture / edited by Sarah Strauss and Ben Orlove.
- Title
- Weather, climate, culture / edited by Sarah Strauss and Ben Orlove.
- Publication
- Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2003.
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- Description
- xviii, 307 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
- Subject
- Human beings > Effect of climate on
- Human beings > Effect of environment on
- Weather > Social aspects
- Weather > Folklore
- Climatic changes
- Weer
- Klimaat
- Sociale aspecten
- Homme > Influence du climat
- Homme > Influence de l'environnement
- Temps (Météorologie) > Aspect social
- Temps (Météorologie) > Folklore
- Climat > Changements
- Climate Change
- Genre/Form
- Internet resource.
- Folklore
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- 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 Niño 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 Ceará, 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 Vásquez-León -- Mood, magic, and metaphor : allusions to weather and climate in the Sagas of Icelanders / Astrid E. Ogilvie and Gísli Pálsson -- Domesticating nature : commentary on the anthropological study of weather and climate discourse / Steve Rayner.
- ISBN
- 1859736920 (HB)
- 9781859736920 (HB)
- 1859736971 (PB)
- 9781859736975 (PB)
- LCCN
- ^^2003018968
- OCLC
- 52288570
- SCSB-10305920
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library