The Anthropology of Disasters in Latin America

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Herausgeber: García-Acosta, Virginia

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Produktbeschreibung

This book offers anthropological insights into disasters in Latin America. It fills a gap in the literature by bringing together national and regional perspectives in the study of disasters.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 549g
• ISBN-13: 9781138581456
• ISBN-10: 1138581453
• Artikelnr.: 58438350

Autorenporträt

Virginia García-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 l¿interdisciplinarité (Louvain, 2017). Forthcoming Hurricanes in Mexico: Five Centuries of History and Memory (Mexico).

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Ilan Kelman; Prologue Anthony Oliver-Smith; Introduction:
Anthropologists studying disasters in Latin America: why, when, how?
Virginia García-Acosta; 1. Risk and uncertainty in Argentinean Social
Anthropology Ana Murgida and Juan Carlos Radovich; 2. The field of
Anthropology of Disasters in Brazil: challenges and perspectives Renzo
Taddei; 3. The Anthropology of Disasters that has yet to be: The Case of
Central America Roberto E. Barrios and Carlos Batres; 4. Thinking through
disaster: ethnographers and disastrous landscapes in Colombia Alejandro
Camargo; 5. Anthropologies of Disasters in Ecuador: Connections and
Apertures A.J. Faas; 6. The Mexican Vein in the Anthropology of Disasters
and Risk Virginia García-Acosta; 7. Is there an Anthropology of Risks and
Disasters in Peru? Fernando Bravo-Alarcón; 8. Anthropology of socio-natural
disasters in Uruguay Javier Taks; 9. An epistemological proposal for the
Anthropology of Disasters: The Venezuelan School Rogelio Altez; Index