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Past Vulnerability - Volcanic Eruptions & Human Vulnerability in Traditional Societies Past & Present (Hardcover)
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Past Vulnerability - Volcanic Eruptions & Human Vulnerability in Traditional Societies Past & Present (Hardcover)
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Volcanic eruptions can affect everything - nature, wildlife,
people. From the earliest times, human resilience has been tested
by this most severe environmental hazard resulting in a variety of
collective responses - from despair and helplessness to endurance,
increased worship of the gods, and even mass migrations. Past
vulnerability breaks new ground by examining the histories of
extreme environmental events, from the resent eruptions of Mount
Merapi in Central Java to the prehistoric Toba supervolcanic
eruption 74.000 years ago on the island of Sumatra. Experts from a
broad and unconventional range of disciplines - from anthropology
to literature studies and from archaeology to theology - discuss
the impacts of volcanic eruptions in human history and prehistory.
The book sets the scene for a 'palaeosocial volcanology' that
complements and extends current approaches to volcanic hazards in
the natural and social sciences by presenting historically informed
and evidence-based analyses on how traditional societies dealt with
these dangers -- or failed to do so.
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