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We live in the water : climate, aging, and socioecology on Smith Island / Jana Kopelent Rehak.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rehak, Jana Kopelentova, 1968- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Smith Island (Md. and Va.)--Social life and customs.
- Smith Island (Md. and Va.).
- Smith Island (Md. and Va.)--Enviromental conditions.
- Human beings--Effect of environment on--Smith Island (Md. and Va.).
- Human beings.
- Human ecology--Smith Island (Md. and Va.).
- Human ecology.
- Climatic changes--Social aspects--Smith Island (Md. and Va.).
- Climatic changes.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 214 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024.
- Summary:
- "This work illustrates how people like Smith Islanders claim their lives in an ecologically changing unstable place"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Preface
- Introduction : the politics and poetics of the weather world
- Weather is everything
- Ways of knowing
- Land and water
- Shifting grounds
- Broken bodies
- The taste of things and comic relief
- The art of making futures
- Epilogue. Ethnographic poetics.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781421448428
- 1421448424
- OCLC:
- 1392080273
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