[T]he contributors to this volume provide a comprehensive account
of the nature of disasters, their complex mix of the physical,
biological, and socio-cultural, and their use in the elucidation
and reconstitution of social life which are the goals of the mining
anthropologist... This volume comes out of the School of American
Research seminars. This means it is particularly well integrated
and interwoven... The end product, then, is a most coherent and
interesting read which will resonate with academics and citizens as
this brave new millennium of ours continues to present us with new
and increasingly complex disasters." —Jonathan Skinner, The Journal
of the Royal Anthropological Institute Vol. 10, no. 4 (December
2004)
"These important essays concern both the value of disasters for
anthropologists and scholars interested in analyzing cultures and
the important insights that an anthropological perspective can
offer to the academic study of disaster and to policy makers"
—Choice, vol. 40, no. 5, January 2003
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