The anthropology of disasters in Latin America : state of the art /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	Taylor & Francis
Other Authors:	García Acosta, Virginia (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.
Series:	Routledge studies in hazards, disaster risk, and climate change.
Subjects:	Natural disasters > Social aspects > Latin America. Hazard mitigation. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Foreword / Ilan Kelman
Prologue / Anthony Oliver-Smith
Introduction : anthropologists studying disasters in Latin America : why, when, how? / Virginia García-Acosta
Risk and uncertainty in Argentinean social anthropology / Ana Murgida and Juan Carlos Radovich
The field of anthropology of disasters in Brazil : challenges and perspectives / Renzo Taddei
The anthropology of disasters that has yet to be : the case of Central America / Roberto E. Barrios and Carlos Batres
Thinking through disaster : ethnographers and disastrous landscapes in Colombia / Alejandro Camargo
Anthropologies of disasters in Ecuador : connections and apertures / A.J. Faas
The Mexican vein in the anthropology of disasters and risk / Virginia García-Acosta
Is there an anthropology of risks and disasters in Peru? / Fernando Bravo-Alarcón
Anthropology of socio-natural disasters in Uruguay / Javier Taks
An epistemological proposal for the anthropology of disasters : the Venezuelan school / Rogelio Altez.