Overview
- Addresses a comparable set of disasters and disaster responses from a range of geographic areas
- Carries lessons about the importance of efforts to remake the cosmos in holistic, ecological ways and the role of ritualized practice
- Examines indigenous practice and knowledge, with special reference to ritual as a mode of seeking stabilization, renewal, and the continuity of life processes
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Disaster Anthropology (PSDA)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Providing a fresh look at some of the pressing issues of our world today, this collection focuses on experiential and ritualized coping practices in response to a multitude of environmental challenges—cyclones, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, earthquakes, warfare and displacements of peoples and environmental resource exploitation. Eco-cosmological practices conducted by skilled healing practitioners utilize knowledge embedded in the cosmological grounding of place and experiences of place and the landscapes in which such experience is encapsulated. A range of geographic case studies are presented in this volume, exploring Asia, Europe, the Pacific, and South America. With special reference throughout to ritual as a mode of seeking the stabilization, renewal, and continuity of life processes, this volume will be of particular interest to readers working in shamanic and healing practices, environmental concerns surrounding sustainability and conservation, ethnomedical systems, and religious and ritual studies.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Diana Riboli is Associate Professor in Anthropology at Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Greece. She is the co-editor, with Davide Torri, of Shamanism and Violence (2013).
Pamela J. Stewart (Strathern) is Senior Research Associate in Anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh, USA. With Andrew J. Strathern, she co-edits the Journal of Ritual Studies and five book series.
Andrew J. Strathern is Andrew Mellon Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh, USA. With Pamela J. Stewart, he co-edits the Journal of Ritual Studies and five book series.
Davide Torri is Senior Researcher at the department of History, Anthropology, Religions and Performing Arts, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. He is the author of Landscape, Ritual and Identity among the Hyolmo of Nepal (2020).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Dealing with Disasters
Book Subtitle: Perspectives from Eco-Cosmologies
Editors: Diana Riboli, Pamela J. Stewart, Andrew J. Strathern, Davide Torri
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Disaster Anthropology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56104-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-56103-1Published: 10 November 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-56106-2Published: 11 November 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-56104-8Published: 09 November 2020
Series ISSN: 2946-5850
Series E-ISSN: 2946-5869
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 262
Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations, 17 illustrations in colour
Topics: Social Anthropology, Ethnography, Environmental Policy, Sociology, general, Environment, general