This timely anthology brings together for the first time themost important ancient, medieval, Enlightenment, and modernscholarship for a complete anthropological evaluation of therelationship between culture and climate change.* Brings together for the first time the most important classicalworks and contemporary scholarship for a complete historicalanthropological evaluation of the relationship between culture andclimate change* Covers the historic and prehistoric records of human impactfrom and response to prior periods of climate change, including theimpact and response to climate change at the local level* Discusses the impact on global debates about climate changefrom North-South post-colonial histories and the social dimensionsof the science of climate change.* Includes coverage of topics such as environmental determinism,climatic events as social catalysts, climatic disasters andsocietal collapse, and ethno-meteorology* An ideal text for courses in climate change, human/culturalecology, environmental anthropology and archaeology, disasterstudies, environmental sciences, science and technologystudies, history of science, and conservation and developmentstudies

Acknowledgments to Sources viiiAbout the Editor xPreface xiAcknowledgments xivIntroduction: The Anthropology of Climate Change Six Millennia of Study of the Relationship between Climate and Society 1Michael R. DovePart I Continuities 37Climate Theory1 Airs, Waters, Places 41Hippocrates2 On the Laws in Their Relation to the Nature of the Climate 47Charles de Secondat MontesquieuBeyond the Greco-Roman Tradition3 The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History 55Ibn Khaldûn4 The Jungle and the Aroma of Meats: An Ecological Theme in Hindu Medicine 67Francis ZimmermannEthno-climatology Copyrighted Material5 Concerning Weather Signs 83Theophrastus6 Gruff Boreas, Deadly Calms: A Medical Perspective on Winds and the Victorians 87Vladimir JankoviæPart II Societal and Environmental Change 103Environmental Determinism7 Nature, Rise, and Spread of Civilization 107Friedrich Ratzel8 Environment and Culture in the Amazon Basin: An Appraisal of the Theory of Environmental Determinism 115Betty J. MeggersClimate Change and Societal Collapse9 Management for Extinction in Norse Greenland 131Thomas H. McGovern10 What Drives Societal Collapse? 151Harvey Weiss and Raymond BradleyClimatic Events as Social Crucibles11 Natural Disaster and Political Crisis in a Polynesian Society: An Exploration of Operational Research 157James Spillius12 Drought as a "Revelatory Crisis": An Exploration of Shifting Entitlements and Hierarchies in the Kalahari, Botswana 168Jacqueline S. SolwayPart III Vulnerability and Control 187Culture and Control of Climate13 Rain-Shrines of the Plateau Tonga of Northern Rhodesia 191Elizabeth Colson14 El Niño, Early Peruvian Civilization, and Human Agency: Some Thoughts from the Lurin Valley 201Richard L. BurgerClimatic Disasters and Social Marginalization15 Katrina: The Disaster and its Doubles 217Nancy Scheper-Hughes16 "Nature", "Culture" and Disasters: Floods and Gender in Bangladesh 223Rosalind ShawPart IV Knowledge and its Circulation 235Emic Views of Climatic Perturbation/Disaster17 Typhoons on Yap 239David M. Schneider18 The Politics of Place: Inhabiting and Defending Glacier Hazard Zones in Peru's Cordillera Blanca 247Mark CareyCo-production of Knowledge in Climatic and Social Histories19 Melting Glaciers and Emerging Histories in the Saint Elias Mountains 261Julie Cruikshank20 The Making and Unmaking of Rains and Reigns 276Todd Sanders"Friction" in the Global Circulation of Climate Knowledge21 Transnational Locals: Brazilian Experiences of the Climate Regime 301Myanna Lahsen22 Channeling Globality: The 1997-98 El Niño Climate Event in Peru 315Kenneth Broad and Ben OrloveIndex 335