The Angry Earth: Disaster in Anthropological Perspective

orig.cloth Minor rubbing, some light cover soil, VG. Textual maps & tables 23x15cm, xiii, 334 pp Contains 15 papers. Includes: A. Oliver-Smith " 'What Is a Disaster?': Anthropological Perspectives on a Persistent Question"; P.D. Sheets "The Effects of Explosive Volcanism on Ancient Egalitarian, Ranked, and Stratified Societies in Middle America"; M.E. Moseley "Convergent Catastrophe: Past Patterns and Future Implications of Collateral Natural Disasters in the Andes"; A. Oliver-Smith "Peru's Five-Hundred-Year Earthquake: Vulnerability in Historical Context"; R. Bolin & L. Stanford " Constructing Vulnerability in the First World: The Northridge Earthquake in Southern California, 1994"; G.V. Button "The Negation of Disaster: The Media Response to Oil Spills in Great Britain"; S.M. Hoffman "The Worst of Times, the Best of Times: Toward a Model of Cultural Response to Disaster";A. Oliver-Smith "The Brotherhood of Pain: Theoretical and Applied Perspectives on Post-Disaster Solidarity"; S.M. Hoffman "The Regenesis of Traditional Gender Patterns in the Wake of Disaster"; M.Q. Zaman " Vulnerability, Disaster, and Survival in Bangladesh: Three Case Studies"; C.L. Dyer & J.R. McGoodwin " 'Tell Them We're Hurting': Hurricane Andrew, the Culture of Response, and the Fishing Peoples of South Florida and Louisiana"; P.L. Doughty "Plan and Pattern in Reaction to Earthquake: Peru 1970-1998"; S.R. Rajan "Bhopal: Vulnerability, Routinization, and the Chronic Disaster"; C.L. Dyer "The Phoenix Effect in Post-Disaster Recovery:An Analysis of the Economic Development Administration's Culture of Response after Hurricane Andrew"; etc. Minor rubbing, some light cover soil, VG. …