000 03220cam a22004454a 4500
001 288570
003 OCoLC
005 20210921175448.0
008 030826s2003 enkab b 001 0 eng
020 _a1859736920 (HB)
020 _a9781859736920:
_c£48.50
020 _a9781859736920 (HB)
020 _a1859736971 (PB)
020 _a9781859736975 (PB)
035 _a(OCoLC)52288570
040 _aDLC
_cDLC
_dUKM
_dC#P
_dPMC
_dBAKER
_dNLGGC
_dBTCTA
_dYDXCP
_dLVB
_dTOZ
042 _apcc
082 0 0 _a304.25
_bSTR
245 0 0 _aWeather, climate, culture /
260 _aOxford ;
_aNew York :
_bBerg,
_c2003.
300 _axviii, 307 p. :
_bill., maps ;
_c24 cm.
336 _atext
_2rdacontent
336 _acartographic image
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_2rdacarrier
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aUp 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.
520 8 _aThroughout 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.
650 0 _aHuman beings
_xEffect of climate on.
650 0 _aHuman beings
_xEffect of environment on.
_94227
650 0 _aWeather
_xSocial aspects.
650 0 _aWeather
_vFolklore.
650 0 _aClimatic changes.
_91452
700 1 _aStrauss, Sarah.
700 1 _aOrlove, Benjamin S.
902 _a150130
907 _a.b10532821
_bsmmai
_c-
942 _n0
998 _b0
_c080703
_dm
_ea
_g0
999 _c49994
_d49994