New Book Available
Anthropology and Climate Change: From Encounters to Actions
Susan A. Crate and Mark Nuttall, editors
Published by Left Coast Press, Walnut Creek, CA.
384 pp., Jan 2009; paperback $34.95; hardback $89.00
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The first book to comprehensively assess anthropology's engagement with
climate change, this pioneering volume both maps out exciting
trajectories for research and issues a call to action. Chapters in part
one are systematic research reviews, covering the relationship between
culture and climate from prehistoric times to the present; changing
anthropological discourse on climate and environment; the diversity of
environmental and sociocultural changes currently occurring around the
globe; and the unique methodological and epistemological tools
anthropologists bring to bear on climate research. Part two includes a
series of case studies that highlights leading-edge research, including
some unexpected and provocative findings. Part three challenges scholars
to be proactive on the front lines of climate change, providing
instruction on how to work with research communities, with innovative
forms of communication, in higher education, in policy environments, as
individuals, and in other critical arenas. Linking sophisticated
knowledge to effective actions, Anthropology and Climate Change is
essential for students and scholars in anthropology and environmental
studies and includes several chapters on northern issues.
About the authors:
Susan A. Crate is an anthropologist in the Department of Environmental
Science and Policy at George Mason University and author of Cows, Kin
and Globalization: The Ethnography of Sustainability (AltaMira Press
2006). Mark Nuttall holds the Henry Marshall Tory Chair in the
Department of Anthropology, University of Alberta. He is editor of the
landmark, three-volume Encyclopedia of the Arctic (Routledge 2005) and
author or editor of many other books.
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http://www.lcoastpress.com/book.php?id=163