What Does Catastrophe Reveal for Whom? The Anthropology of Crises and Disasters at the Onset of the Anthropocene.

The modernist usage of the word crisis conveys the idea of an event that acts as a historical judgment, marks an epochal transition, and sometimes leads to a utopian era. Furthermore, current uses of crisis in the political sphere often figure catastrophic events as the result of errors and malfunct...

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Published in:	Annual Review of Anthropology Vol. 46; no. 1; pp. 151 - 163
Main Author:	Barrios, Roberto E.
Format:	Article
Published:	Annual Reviews Inc. Oct2017
Subjects:	Anthropology Crises Technology Communicable diseases Disasters Anthropocene Epoch
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost