The Angry Earth: Disaster in Anthropological Perspective

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Editors: Oliver-Smith, Anthony and Hoffman, Susanna M.

Publisher: Routledge

Pub Date: 1999

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good.  Binding tight.  No marks, tears, bends or folds.  Smudging to lower text block.  Slight edge and corner wear.

Notes: Hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, volcanoes, oil spills, poison gas leaks, drought.  Written before 9/11.  Not a catalog of disasters, or a catalog of how to deal with them, but how we react and deal and “overcome” (the Phoenix Effect) with disasters.  Disaster Studies.