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Disasters, culture, politics : Chinese-Bulgarian anthropological contribution to the study of critical situations / edited by Elya Tzaneva, with Fang Sumei and Liu Mingxin.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Disasters--China.
- Disasters.
- Disasters--Bulgaria.
- Disasters--Social aspects--China.
- Disasters--Social aspects--Bulgaria.
- Emergency management--China.
- Emergency management.
- Emergency management--Bulgaria.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (259 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The articles in the volume contribute to a relatively new domain of scholarly research - the ecological anthropology, focusing especially on contemporary crises and disasters from different background: natural, social, technological, etc. Based upon expanded field work, in some cases - from a terrain difficult to access, the authors investigate a variety of disasters' situations in two contemporary societies of the developing world - China in Southeast Asia, and Bulgaria in the Southeast Eu...
- Contents:
- TABLE OF CONTENTS; PREFACE; QINGHAI PROVINCE IN THE PERSPECTIVE OF ECOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURE OF ARID AREAS A STUDY ON XINJIANG'S UYGUR PEOPLE; THE CRISIS OF POST-SOCIALISM AND THE TRADITIONAL ATTITUDES OF THE BULGARIANS; SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGIES FOR SNOW DISASTER PREVENTION; ST ELIJAH, THE RULER OF SUMMERTIME NATURAL DISASTERS; EPIDEMICS, SOCIETY AND COUNTRY; BULGARIAN TRADITIONAL ECOLOGY; IDEAS AND BELIEFS OF THE BULGARIANS ASSOCIATED WITH NATURAL DISASTERS; THE PREVENTION AND CONTROL OF BIOLOGICAL DISASTER AND SOCIAL CHANGE; FOOTBALL GAME DURING AND AFTER A CRISIS PERIOD
- AN ANALYSIS OF WESTERN CHINESE MINORITY YOUTHS' SUSCEPTIBILITY TO AIDSTWO CULTURES' REACTION TO A PANDEMIC; ABBREVIATIONS; CONTRIBUTORS' SCHOLARLY INSTITUTIONS AND CONTACTS
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-48129-0
- 9786612481291
- 1-4438-1574-8
- OCLC:
- 823386104
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