Weather, Climate, and Culture

Anthropology 14. Enironmental Studies 14.

Anne Henshaw

Explores anthropological approaches to understanding meteorological phenomena in a variety of cultural contexts. Draws on ethnographic and archeological case studies, with emphasis placed on the ways humans have responded to weather and climatic variability, as well as the symbolic and cognitive dimensions associated with such phenomena in everyday life. Examines the relationship between scientific inquiry into growing concern over long term climate change and how change in experienced on scales relevant to human activity. Case studies are drawn from both pre-industrial and industrial societies in the New and Old World.