Weather, Climate, Culture

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Introduction 1. Sarah Strauss and Ben Orlove Up in the Air: The Anthropology of Weather and Climate DAYS 2. Jan Golinski TIME, TALK, AND THE WEATHER IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN. 3. Sarah Strauss Weather Wise: Speaking Folklore to Science in Leukerbad 4. Michael Paolisso Chesapeake Bay Watermen, Weather and Blue Crabs: Cultural Models and Fishery Policies 5. Todd Sanders (En)Gendering the Weather: Rainmaking and Reproduction in Tanzania 6. Trevor Harley (U. Dundee, UK) Nice weather for the time of year: The British obsession with the weather YEARS 7. Ben Orlove HOW PEOPLE NAME SEASONS 8. John Thornes and Gemma Wetherell Monet's 'London Series' and the Cultural Climate of London at the turn of the Twentieth Century 9. David Ellis Changing Earth and Sky: Movement, Environmental Variability, and Responses to El Nino in the Pio-Tura Region of Papua New Guinea 10. Carla Roncoli, Keith Ingram, Christine Jost, and Paul Kirshen Meteorological Meanings: Farmers' Interpretations of Seasonal Rainfall Forecasts in Burkina Faso. GENERATIONS 11. Tim Finan Climate Science and the Policy of Drought Mitigation in Ceara, Northeast Brazil 12. Anne Henshaw CLIMATE AND CULTURE IN THE NORTH: THE INTERFACE OF ARCHAEOLOGY, PALEOENVIRONEMNTAL SCIENCE AND ORAL HISTORY 13. Colin West and Marcela Vasquez-Leon Testing Farmers' Perceptions of Climate Variability: A Case Study from the Sulphur Springs Valley, Arizona 14. Gisli Palsson and Astrid Ogilvie It looks like unfavourable weather is brewing: Descriptions of weather in the Sagas of Icelanders Afterword 15. Steven Rayner Domesticating Nature: Commentary on the Anthropological Study of Weather and Climate Discourse

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