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Climates and Cultures (Hardcover)
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Climates and Cultures (Hardcover)
Series: SAGE Library of the Environment
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'Climate' is an old idea, but an idea which retains tremendous
power, versatility and utility in today's world. For the Ancient
Greeks, climate worked both as index and as agency , and this dual
function has recurred throughout human cultural history and it
works too in contemporary discourses about climate change. Climates
change physically, but climates can also change ideologically. What
climate means to different people in different places in different
eras is not stable. If culture is concerned with how human meaning,
symbolism and practice take on substantive and material forms, then
studying climate through culture is likely to be a fruitful
activity. This Major Work is a valuable synopsis of a diffuse
discourse and captures some of the most important writing on
climate and culture that has appeared since the 1980s. It provides
a structure within which the recently growing body of work in human
geography, anthropology, sociology and religious studies can be
placed. Volume One: Theorising Climate and Culture Volume Two: The
Agencies of Climate Volume Three: Reading Climate and Culture in
the Past Volume Four: Reading Climate and Culture in the Future
Volume Five: Climate and Culture in Places Volume Six: Cultural
Representations of Climate
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