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 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.

Throughout history, the weather has been both feared and revered for its powerful influence over living creatures. This work states that with the continuing rise in global warming and consequential change in weather patterns, our awareness of this topic has never been so important.