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While it is widely acknowledged that climate change is among the greatest global challenges of our times, it has local implications too. This volume forefronts these local issues, giving anthropology a voice in this great debate, which is otherwise dominated by natural scientists and policy makers. It shows what an ethnographic focus can offer in furthering our understanding of the lived realities of climate debates. Contributors from communities around the world discuss local knowledge of, and responses to, environmental changes that need to feature in scientifically framed policies regarding mitigation and adaptation measures if they are to be effective.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• List of Illustrations (p. x)
• Acknowledgements (p. xiii)
• Introduction. Introducing the Anthroposcene of Weather and Climate (p. 1)
• Part I Local Weather Knowledge
• Chapter 1 There's Something in the Air - But What? On Amazon People's Perception of Atmospheric Phenomena (p. 27)
• Chapter 2 Climate Change, Weather and Perception: Fishing in Eastern Patagonia (p. 45)
• Part II Adaptation Challenges
• Chapter 3 Indigenous Responses to Climate Change in Extreme Environments: The Cases of the Q'eros (Peruvian Andes) and the Gwich'in (Alaska) (p. 71)
• Chapter 4 Fornicating Frogs: Local Knowledge of Climate Change in Bangladesh? (p. 87)
• Appendix: Climate Change Questionnaire (p. 118)
• Chapter 5 Weather, Agency and Values at Work in a Glacier Ski Resort in Austria (p. 124)
• Chapter 6 The Moral Climate of Melting Glaciers: Andean Claims for Justice at the Paris Climate Change Summit (p. 146)
• Part III Flows of Knowledge
• Chapter 7 Making Sense of Climate Science: From Climate Knowledge to Decision-Making (p. 171)
• Chapter 8 Practising Anthropology by Providing Climate Services for Farmers: The Case of Science Field Shops in Indonesia (p. 195)
• Chapter 9 Nepal's Climate-Change Cultural World (p. 220)
• Part IV Climate Politics
• Chapter 10 Down to Air: Palestinian Memories and Practices of Weather Relatedness (p. 249)
• Chapter 11 Imagining Nations and Producing Climate-Change Knowledge in Brazil (p. 271)
• Chapter 12 Embanking the Sundarbans: The Obfuscating Discourse of Climate Change (p. 294)
• Afterword (p. 322)
• Index (p. 331)

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CHOICE Review

Humans experience weather and climate for a specific place and time all at once. Why not treat it as a unitary subject? This collection attempts to do so, using an interdisciplinary approach to acknowledge how climate change affects every living thing on Earth in increasingly violent ways. Sillitoe (Durham Univ., UK) is mainly concerned with cross-fertilizing anthropology, ethnography, and some of the natural sciences. Although climate change extends far beyond those realms--given rising temperatures, rising seas, and increasingly violent hurricanes, it affects nearly every subject a student could investigate--this volume will help establish a foundation for more expansive cross-disciplinary endeavors in the future. Given the urgency of this topic, however, a more streamlined title would have helped draw in more readers. As it stands, the title is quite clunky. First, Anthropocene needs to be defined because the subject is still so new. A detailed explanation of how it describes the epoch in which human actions are now the most influential elements affecting Earth's evolution, having dethroned nature, would have been helpful early on in the introduction. Still, this will make an excellent supplementary text in several fields. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty. --Bruce Elliott Johansen, emeritus, University of Nebraska at Omaha (emeritus)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Paul Sillitoe is Professor of Anthropology at Durham University. He has a background in both cultural anthropology and agricultural science. His research interests focus on environmental issues and natural resources management. His recent books include Sustainable Development: An Appraisal Focusing on the Gulf Region (Berghahn, 2014) and Indigenous Knowledge: Enhancing Its Contribution to Natural Resources Management (CABI, 2017).