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The anthropology of disasters in Latin America : state of the art / edited by Virginia GarciÌa-Acosta.
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- Book
- Series:
- Routledge studies in hazards, disaster risk, and climate change
- Routledge studies in hazards, disaster risk and climate change
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Natural disasters--Social aspects--Latin America.
- Natural disasters.
- Hazard mitigation.
- Natural disasters--Social aspects.
- Latin America.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvii, 233 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.
- System Details:
- text file
- Biography/History:
- Virginia GarciÌa-Acosta is a Mexican social anthropologist and historian, as well as a teacher and researcher since 1973 in CIESAS, Mexico. Her research relates to disaster and risk from a historical-anthropological perspective, focused in Mexico and Latin America. Last book Les Catastrophes et lÃ3/4interdisciplinariteÌ (Louvain, 2017). Forthcoming Hurricanes in Mexico: Five Centuries of History and Memory (Mexico).
- Contents:
- Foreword / Ilan Kelman
- Prologue / Anthony Oliver-Smith
- Introduction : anthropologists studying disasters in Latin America : why, when, how? / Virginia GarciÌa-Acosta
- Risk and uncertainty in Argentinean social anthropology / Ana Murgida and Juan Carlos Radovich
- The field of anthropology of disasters in Brazil : challenges and perspectives / Renzo Taddei
- The anthropology of disasters that has yet to be : the case of Central America / Roberto E. Barrios and Carlos Batres
- Thinking through disaster : ethnographers and disastrous landscapes in Colombia / Alejandro Camargo
- Anthropologies of disasters in Ecuador : connections and apertures / A.J. Faas
- The Mexican vein in the anthropology of disasters and risk / Virginia GarciÌa-Acosta
- Is there an anthropology of risks and disasters in Peru? / Fernando Bravo-AlarcoÌn
- Anthropology of socio-natural disasters in Uruguay / Javier Taks
- An epistemological proposal for the anthropology of disasters : the Venezuelan school / Rogelio Altez.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 22, 2020).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Park-Choi Fund for Anthropology Studies.
- Other Format:
- Print version: The anthropology of disasters in Latin America
- ISBN:
- 9780429506727
- 0429506724
- 9780429015182
- 0429015186
- 9780429015175
- 0429015178
- 9780429015168
- 042901516X
- Publisher Number:
- 99983773123
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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