Anthropology and Disaster
• History of the social science study of disaster • What can anthropology tell us about disaster? • What is a disaster? Types and causes • Differences between hazard, emergency, disaster, catastrophe • Anthropology of disaster: context, community, aftermath, coping, change & adaptation • Social science theories of disaster: behaviorist or functionalist; hazard approach; political economy approaches and the notions of ‘risk’ and ‘vulnerability’ • Disaster and gender, caste, class, race and ethnicity • What can disasters tell us about anthropology?
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