Dealing with Disasters: Perspectives from Eco-Cosmologies (1st ed. 2021) (Palgrave Studies in Disaster Anthropology)

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Synopsis
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.
Copyright:
2021

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ISBN-13:
9783030561048
Related ISBNs:
9783030561031
Publisher:
Springer International Publishing
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Springer
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No
Language:
English
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Categories:
Nonfiction, Science, Outdoors and Nature, Social Studies, Politics and Government, Sociology
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Diana Riboli
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Pamela J. Stewart
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Andrew J. Strathern
Edited by:
Davide Torri

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