Comments on: Disaster Anthropology

By: Maria

Maria — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:34:12 +0000

…also anything by Greg Bankoff (I am re-familiarizing myself with research now too).

By: Maria

Maria — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 23:49:30 +0000

There is No Such Thing as a Natural Disaster, by Chester Hartman & Gregory D. Squires. I have many more too, but this is one of the most current & relevant.

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By: Fuji Lozada

Fuji Lozada — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 21:16:44 +0000

Mia:
I apologize for not doing my homework prior to the above posting; the person I was trying think of is Anthony Oliver-Smith — who was already mentioned by Kerim above. It was a great paper, and I learned a lot from his talk.

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By: Fuji Lozada

Fuji Lozada — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 21:09:27 +0000

Mia:

At the 2006 annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society, the keynote panel was on the Anthropology of Disasters. (Fittingly, the conference was held @ the University of West Florida in Pensacola – hurricane damage was all around us from a 2005 storm.) The panel featured three speakers. One was a provost who talked about UWF’s experience with evacuation and recovery. The other two would be more important to your research, but I can’t quite remember their names. One worked in Peru, and became a specialist on the anthropology of disasters because of an earthquake that took place at his dissertation fieldsite (sometime in the late 70s or 80s); the other was a woman at the University of New Orleans (she had done work mostly on vodou). Terry Prewitt from UWF may be a good person to contact about that panel.
I should have properly archived the material from that conference so it would be more accessible (since I’m the webmaster); I will try to do so sometime.

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By: Mia

Mia — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 03:26:28 +0000

I am doing my proposal research on disaster, and I do need assistance on theory.

Glad if anyone could give me inputs: any books/articles I should read.

Thank you

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By: lorenz

lorenz — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 16:15:51 +0000

I’m in the library right now and found two readers by Anthony Oliver-Smith (mentioned in my post you’ve linked to). The one is called “Catastrophe & Culture. The Anthropology of Disaster (2002), includes 11 articles, mostly anthropological case-studies. The other book is called “The Angry Earth. Disaster in Anthropological Perspective” (1999), with even more case studies by different anthropologists. I’ll start reading now and might post some excerpts / summaries later

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