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 European Balkans. The
forms of disasters researched, include: epidemics and
health-threads (SARS, AIDS, Bird Flu, rat disease, small pox,
typhoid fever, etc.); ecologically related disasters
(bio-disasters), social catastrophic events (transition in
political regime, and towards reforming and opening, also towards a
market economy), natural crises (arid areas, snow-falls,
rain-falls, draughts). Attention is paid to a full scale disasters'
life-cycle from the creation and evaluation of a
risk-vulnerability, individual and social reaction and coping
strategies, up to the relief management. The articles investigate
the interrelationships between cultural, demographic, political,
economic, and environmental domains related to the disasters -
e.g., the social context of the crisis. It is the authors'
understanding that this context defines the preparedness,
mobilization, and prevention of disasters for each discrete group
of people or society. The volume applies a broad ethnological
approach to the field of disasters' study, which interprets them
comparatively, contextualy, and in cross-cultural perspective. It
is conceived as a first volume of a series investigation papers of
a joint research team on this topic.
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