Climate Change and Tradition in a Small Island State
The Rising Tide
The citizens of the Marshall Islands have been told that climate change will doom their country, and they have seen confirmatory omens in the land, air, and sea. This book investigates how grassroots Marshallese society has interpreted and responded to this threat as intimated by local observation, science communication, and Biblical exegesis. With grounds to dismiss or ignore the threat, Marshall Islanders have instead embraced it; with reasons to forswear guilt and responsibility, they have instead adopted in-group blame; and having been instructed that resettlement is necessary, they have vowed instead to retain the homeland. These dominan…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-135-05537-0
- EAN: 9781135055370
- Produktnummer: 16949857
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 244 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'951 KB
- Abbildungen: 12 schwarz-weiße Abbildungen, 11 schwarz-weiße Fotos, 1 schwarz-weiße Zeichnungen, 2 schwarz-weiße Tabellen
Über den Autor
Peter Rudiak-Gould is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at McGill University.
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