Michael R. Dove - The Anthropology of Climate Change: An Historical Reader

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1. Linguistic Anthropology: A Reader, 2nd Edition
Edited by Alessandro Duranti
2. A Reader in the Anthropology of Religion, 2nd Edition
Edited by Michael Lambek
3. The Anthropology of Politics: A Reader in Ethnography, Theory, and Critique
Edited by Joan Vincent
4. Kinship and Family: An Anthropological Reader
Edited by Robert Parkin and Linda Stone
5. Law and Anthropology: A Reader
Edited by Sally Falk Moore
6. The Anthropology of Development and Globalization: From Classical Political Economy to Contemporary Neoliberalism
Edited by Marc Edelman and Angelique Haugerud
7. The Anthropology of Art: A Reader
Edited by Howard Morphy and Morgan Perkins
8. Feminist Anthropology: A Reader
Edited by Ellen Lewin
9. Ethnographic Fieldwork: An Anthropological Reader, 2nd Edition
Edited by Antonius C. G. M. Robben and Jeffrey A. Sluka
10. Environmental Anthropology
Edited by Michael R. Dove and Carol Carpenter
11. Anthropology and Child Development: A Cross-Cultural Reader
Edited by Robert A. LeVine and Rebecca S. New
12. Foundations of Anthropological Theory: From Classical Antiquity to Early Modern Europe
Edited by Robert Launay
13. Psychological Anthropology: A Reader on Self in Culture
Edited by Robert A. LeVine
14. A Reader in Medical Anthropology: Theoretical Trajectories, Emergent Realities
Edited by Byron J. Good, Michael M. J. Fischer, Sarah S. Willen, and Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good
15. Sexualities in Anthropology
Edited by Andrew Lyons and Harriet Lyons
16. The Anthropology of Performance: A Reader
Edited by Frank J. Korom
17. The Anthropology of Citizenship: A Reader
Edited by Sian Lazar
18. The Anthropology of Climate Change: An Historical Reader
Edited by Michael R. Dove

This edition first published 2014
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2 Burger, Richard L. 2003. El Nio, Early Peruvian Civilization, and Human Agency: Some Thoughts from the Lurin Valley . In El Nio in Peru: Biology and Culture Over 10,000 Years. J. Haas and M. O. Dillon, eds. Fieldiana Botany : 90107.

3 Carey, Mark. 2008. The Politics of Place: Inhabiting and Defending Glacier Hazard Zones in Perus Cordillera Blanca. In Darkening Peaks: Glacier Retreat, Science, and Society . B. Orlove, E. Wiegandt, and B.H. Luckman, eds. pp. 229240. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

4 Colson, Elizabeth. 1957. Rain-Shrines of the Plateau Tonga of Northern Rhodesia. I n The Plateau Tonga of Northern Rhodesia (Zambia): Social and Religious Studies . pp. 84101. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, for the Institute for Social Research, University of Zambia.

5 Cruikshank, Julie. 2007. Melting Glaciers and Emerging Histories in the Saint Elias Mountains . In