Volcanoes, People, and Teleconnection
Local Spirits and Distant Monsters
$88.35
- Hardcover
280 pages
- Release Date
30 March 2027
Summary
A unique comparison of how people living in the shadow of volcanoes and those residing continents away experience and live with their effects
In 1815, when the volcano Tambora in what was then the East Indies erupted, it precipitated global cooling that lasted for several years and led to one of the great subsistence crises in the western world. In the vicinity of the volcano itself, the eruption had equally devastating but differently interpreted effects. Surviving l…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780300290059 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0300290055 |
| Author: | Michael R. Dove |
| Publisher: | Yale University Press |
| Imprint: | Yale University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 280 |
| Release Date: | 30 March 2027 |
| Dimensions: | 156mm x 235mm |
| Series: | Yale Agrarian Studies Series |
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Michael R. Dove
Michael R. Dove is the Margaret K. Musser Professor of Social Ecology, professor of anthropology, and curator of anthropology at the Peabody Museum, Yale University. He is the author of Hearsay Is Not Excluded: A History of Natural History and Bitter Shade: The Ecological Challenge of Human Consciousness.
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