Chapter 3 Fielding Climate Change in Cultural Anthropology
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Gone the bull of winter? Grappling with the cultural implications of and anthropology's role(s) in global climate change.
Because global climate change is intimately linked to culture, anthropologists are strategically well-placed to interpret it, communicate information about it, and act in response to it both in the field and at home. Fieldworkers are increasingly encountering reports of the local effects of climate change from their research partners, and it is becoming apparent that indigenous peoples' recogni...
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