0
Your cart

Your cart is empty

Browse All Departments
  • All Departments
Price
  • R500 - R1,000 (1)
  • R1,000 - R2,500 (1)
  • -
Status
Brand

Showing 1 - 2 of 2 matches in All Departments

Disasters, Culture, Politics - Chinese-Bulgarian Anthropological Contribution to the Study of Critical Situations (Hardcover,... Disasters, Culture, Politics - Chinese-Bulgarian Anthropological Contribution to the Study of Critical Situations (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)
Elya Tzaneva, With Fang Sumei, Liu Mingxin
R1,165 R732 Discovery Miles 7 320 Save R433 (37%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

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.

Disasters and Cultural Stereotypes (Hardcover, Unabridged edition): Elya Tzaneva with Fang Sumei, Edwin Schmitt Disasters and Cultural Stereotypes (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)
Elya Tzaneva with Fang Sumei, Edwin Schmitt
R2,048 Discovery Miles 20 480 Out of stock

This volume is the second attempt by a joint international research team (consisting of Bulgarian, Chinese, Russian and American ethnologists) to contribute to the domain of ecological anthropology. The editors of and contributors to this collection share the understanding that catastrophic events challenge society to rework a specific methodology, and to activate a specific resource, to adapt to and cope with crises ecologically, socially and ideologically. The main aim of this volume is to reveal the important role of studying and taking into account the cultural stereotypes in this process. Through detailed analysis of different case studies, the contributors further generalize the definition of disasters and critical situations as situations that arise from the violation of a balance in individual and collective life, as any deviation from "normality" in the particular context of each discreet culture.This interpretation informs a structural grouping of the materials in this collection into three main parts. The section on "Cultural Responses to Natural and Biological Disasters" (specific case studies) follows the "Conceptualization of Cultural Knowledge about Disasters". The contributors to the collection share the conviction that the ecology of social crises (presented in the volume's third section on "Cultural Management of Social Crises") is a valuable and necessary addition to the field of natural and technological, bio- and man-made disasters. They believe this is proved by the texts presented in this volume.The empirical data employed in the volume and the forms of disasters researched include materials from the Tibetan Pastoral area and the Pamir Plateau in Asia, the Rhodopes and Strandja Mountains in the Balkans, Macedonia and Central and Western Bulgaria, to ethnic minority areas in Central and Western China, Ukraine and Moldova.

Free Delivery
Pinterest Twitter Facebook Google+
You may like...
Seagull Clear Storage Box (29lt)
R241 Discovery Miles 2 410
The Folk Of The Air: Trilogy - The Cruel…
Holly Black Paperback  (3)
R648 Discovery Miles 6 480
Huntlea Koletto - Matlow Pet Bed…
R969 R562 Discovery Miles 5 620
Aerolatte Cappuccino Art Stencils (Set…
R110 R95 Discovery Miles 950
Magic Mike's Last Dance
Channing Tatum, Salma Hayek-Pinault DVD R93 Discovery Miles 930
Ultimate Cookies & Cupcakes For Kids
Hinkler Pty Ltd Kit R299 R234 Discovery Miles 2 340
Golf Groove Sharpener (Black)
R249 Discovery Miles 2 490
Mellerware Swiss - Plastic Floor Fan…
R369 Discovery Miles 3 690
Professor Snape Wizard Wand - In…
 (8)
R801 Discovery Miles 8 010
A Shakespeare Story: Shakespeare Stories…
Andrew Matthews Paperback R1,130 R881 Discovery Miles 8 810

 

Partners