List of Figures and Tables
Acknowledgements
Note on Contributors
Introduction to the Second Edition of The Angry Earth: From Introduction to Widespread Reception (Susanna M. Hoffman and Anthony Oliver-Smith)
Introduction to the First Edition. Anthropology and the Angry Earth: An Overview (Susanna M. Hoffman and Anthony Oliver-Smith)
I. DISASTERS, ENVIRONMENT AND CULTURE
Postscript: Hazards of Nature, Disasters of Society
II. ENVIRONMENTAL PATTERN, HAZARDS AND CULTURE: THE ARCHEOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE
Postscript: Convergent Catastrophe: Past Patterns and Future Implications of Collateral natural Disaster in the Andres
Postscript: When the Natural Hazard Becomes a Cultural Disaster
III. THE CULTURAL CONSTRUCTION OF CATASTROPHE
Postscript: The Five Hundred Year Earthquake: Seeking Root Causes and Deep Drivers
Postscript: Vulnerability Then and Now
Postscript: Continued Disavowal and The Advent of Social Media
IV. HOW CULTURES RESPOND
Postscript: Behind the States and Act Four: More to the Worst of Times, the Best of Times Model
Postscript: Integrated Approach to Risk Reduction and Development
Postscript: Recognizing the Diversity of Disaster Impacts: The Need for Response Protocols, Anticipation, and Human Rights
Postscript: Communitas and Resilience
Postscript: Still With Us After all These Years; But Slowly Changing
V. AGENCIES, SURVIVORS AND CULTURE
Postscript: Revisiting a Scene of Disaster, Again
Postscript: The Bhopal Gas Disaster Three Decades On
Postscript: The Phoenix Effect Revisited: Hurricane Andrew, South Florida, and the Rise of Punctuated Entropy
VI. DISASTER AND CULTURAL CONTINUITY
Postscript: The Question of Culture Continuity and Change After a Disaster Twenty Years Later
Index
Anthony Oliver-Smith is a professor emeritus in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Florida, USA. He has done anthropological research and consultation on issues relating to disasters and involuntary resettlement in Peru, Honduras, India, Brazil, Jamaica, Mexico, Japan, Panama, and the United States since the 1970s. His current work is concerned with climate change, disasters, displacement, and migration. He is a recipient of the Bronislaw Malinowski Lifetime Achievement Award given by the Society for Applied Anthropology.
Susanna M. Hoffman is an internationally recognized expert on disaster. She is the author, co-author, and editor of twelve books, two ethnographic films, and more than forty articles and chapters. She initiated the Risk and Disaster Thematic Interest Group for the Society for Applied Anthropology, and is the founder and chair of the Risk and Disaster Commission for the International Union of Anthropology and Ethnographic Sciences. She was the first recipient of the Fulbright Foundation’s Aegean Initiative dealing with the Greek and Turkish earthquakes, and helped write the United Nations Statement on Women and Disasters. She is a frequent national and international speaker, and also serves on the Task Force on World Food Problems.
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