Home

WorldCat Home About WorldCat Help Get E-mail Updates Feedback

Search

Search for Library Items Search for Lists Search for Contacts Search for a Library

Create lists, bibliographies and reviews: or

Cite/Export

Cite/Export

Copy a citation

APA (6th ed.)

Chicago (Author-Date, 15th ed.)

Harvard (18th ed.)

MLA (7th ed.)

Turabian (6th ed.)

Export a citation
Export to RefWorks Export to EndNote Export to EasyBib Cancel
Note: Citations are based on reference standards. However, formatting rules can vary widely between applications and fields of interest or study. The specific requirements or preferences of your reviewing publisher, classroom teacher, institution or organization should be applied.
Print
E-mail

E-mail

All fields are required.

The E-mail Address(es) field is required. Please enter recipient e-mail address(es).

The E-mail Address(es) you entered is(are) not in a valid format. Please re-enter recipient e-mail address(es).

You may send this item to up to five recipients.
Enter recipient e-mail address(es): Separate up to five addresses with commas (,)
The name field is required. Please enter your name.
Enter your name: Subject:
The E-mail message field is required. Please enter the message.
E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52288570 Title: Weather, climate, culture Author: Sarah Strauss; Benjamin S Orlove Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2003. ISBN/ISSN: 1859736920 1859736971 9781859736920 9781859736975 OCLC:52288570

The ReCaptcha terms you entered were incorrect. Please try to match the 2 words shown in the window, or try the audio version.

Cancel
Share
Permalink

Permalink

Copy this URL to link to this page:

Write a review
Rate this item:
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5

Preview this item

Weather, climate, culture

Author:	Sarah Strauss; Benjamin S Orlove
Publisher:	Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2003.
Edition/Format:	Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
Rating:	(not yet rated) 0 with reviews - Be the first.

Borrow / obtain a copy

Find a copy online

Links to this item

ebrary

Table of contents

Find a copy in the library

Finding libraries that hold this item...

Details

Genre/Form:	Folklore
Material Type:	Internet resource
Document Type:	Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors:	Sarah Strauss; Benjamin S Orlove Find more information about:
ISBN:	1859736920 1859736971 9781859736920 9781859736975
OCLC Number:	52288570
Description:	xviii, 307 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Contents:	Up in the air : the anthropology of weather and climate / Sarah Strauss and Ben Orlove -- Time, talk, and the weather in eighteenth-century Britain / Jan Golinski -- Weather wise : speaking folklore to science in Leukerbad / Sarah Strauss -- Chesapeake Bay watermen, weather, and blue crabs : cultural models and fishery policies / Michael Paolisso -- (En)gendering the weather : rainmaking and reproduction in Tanzania / Todd Sanders -- Nice weather for the time of year : the British obsession with the weather / Trevor A. Harley -- How people name seasons / Ben Orlove -- Monet's 'London series' and the cultural climate of London at the turn of the twentieth century / John E. Thornes and Gemma Metherell -- Changing earth and sky : movement, environmental variability, and responses to El Niño in the Pio-Tura region of Papua New Guinea / David M. Ellis -- Meteorological meanings : farmers' interpretations of seasonal rainfall forecasts in Burkina Faso / Carla Roncoli ... [et al.] -- Climate science and the policy of drought mitigation in Ceará, Northeast Brazil / Timothy J. Finan -- Climate and culture in the North : the interface of archaeology, paleoenvironmental science, and oral history / Anne Henshaw -- Testing farmers' perceptions of climate variability : a case study from the Sulphur Springs Valley, Arizona / Colin Thor West and Marcela Vásquez-León -- Mood, magic, and metaphor : allusions to weather and climate in the Sagas of Icelanders / Astrid E. Ogilvie and Gísli Pálsson -- Domesticating nature : commentary on the anthropological study of weather and climate discourse / Steve Rayner.
Responsibility:	edited by Sarah Strauss and Ben Orlove.
More information:	Table of contents

Reviews

User-contributed reviews

You:	Sign In \| Register \| My WorldCat \| My Lists \| My Watchlist \| My Reviews \| My Tags \| My Saved Searches
WorldCat:	Home \| About \| Help \| Get E-mail Updates \| Feedback \| Search

More like this

Subjects

Similar Items