Catastrophe and Culture: The Anthropology of Disaster by Susana Hoffman

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Catastrophe and Culture: The Anthropology of Disaster by Susana HoffmanISBN: 9780852559253 Publisher: James Curry, 2002 Hardcover, 320 pages At a time of increasing globalization and worldwide vulnerability, the study of disasters has become an important focus for anthropological research. Disasters and their aftermaths affect all dimensions of a community's social structures as well as its relations with its environment. They both reveal and become an expression of the complex interactions of physical, biological and

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