Anthropological Perspectives on Environmental Communication.

Anthropological Perspectives on Environmental Communication -- Foreword -- References -- Praise for Anthropological Perspectives on Environmental Communication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Environmental Communication -- Anthropological Perspectives on Environmental Communication -- Mapping the Contribution -- The Chapters -- Final Note -- References -- Dancing with Lava: Indigenous Interactions with an Active Volcano in Arizona -- Introduction -- Methodology -- Previous Research -- Southern Paiute Epistemology -- Use of the Uinkaret Volcanic Field Before the Little Springs Event (17,000 B.P. to A.D. 1075) -- Little Springs Volcanic Event and the Southern Paiute Response -- Post-Eruption: The Initial Southern Paiute Response -- Post-Eruption Ceremonies: Little Springs Pilgrimage -- Hot Spring at the Northern Lobe of the Little Springs Lava Flow: Unuvats -- The Northern Lobe of the Little Springs Lava Flow -- Coyote's House -- Discussion: Navigating the Epistemological Divide -- References -- Arsenic Fields: Community Understandings of Risk, Place, and Landscape -- Introduction -- Contaminated Places and Communities -- The Contaminated Riddarhyttan Copper Fields -- Communication of Environmental Risk -- Local Community Perspectives -- Risk Communication in Riddarhyttan -- Landscape, Place, Risk, and Memories -- By Way of Conclusion -- References -- Cultural Transmission in Slovak Mountain Regions: Local Knowledge as Symbolic Argumentation -- Introduction -- Traditional Ecological Knowledge as an Adaptation Process -- Methods -- Mountains and Vrch�ari -- Land Abandonment as Loss of Cultural and Natural Diversity -- Anthropological Arguments for the Continuity of Generational Transmission -- Argument 1: The Floating TEK Gap -- Argument 2: The Three-Generation Model Family.

The Example of the Il�c�ik Family -- Argument 3: Cattle Farming as a Symbol of Identity, Integrity, and Livelihood -- Discussion -- References -- Community Voices, Practices, and Memories in Environmental Communication: Iliamna Lake Yup'ik Place Names, Alaska -- Introduction -- A Study of Iliamna Lake Yup'ik Place Names -- Place Names as Environmental Communication -- Colonizing and Decolonizing Iliamna Lake Names -- Telling About Places -- Cultural Practices and Places -- Discussion -- References -- Demographic Change and Local Community Sustainability: Heritagization of Land Abandonment Symbols -- Introduction -- The Depopulation of Cultural Regions in Europe -- Background -- Local Communities and the Cultural Landscape -- The Historical Context of Central European Migration and Depopulation -- Land Depopulation: Limited Fertility as a Maladaptation -- The Increasing Control of Birthrate Among Married Couples -- Heritagization as the Reconstruction of Local Memory -- Historical Cemeteries and Tombstones: Places of Cultural Memory -- Revitalization of Symbols, Community, and the Cultural Landscape -- Environmental Communication and the Symbolic Language of Cemeteries -- Discussion: Symbolic Dialogue in Environmental Communication -- References -- Living Stone Bridges: Epistemological Divides in Heritage Environmental Communication -- Heritage Environmental Communication -- The Case Study -- Study Location -- Study Methods -- Study Findings -- Zuni -- Southern Paiute -- Acoma Pueblo -- Ute Mountain Ute -- Analysis -- Discussion -- References -- "The Sea Has No Boundaries": Collaboration and Communication Between Actors in Coastal Planning on the Swedish West Coast -- Introduction -- Theoretical Context -- The Rationale for the Collaborative Project -- The Organization and the Explicit Objectives of the Project.

The Benefits of the Project from the Perspective of the Involved Stakeholders -- Conflicts of Interest -- Obstacles Related to Regulations and the Institutional Division of Responsibilities in Society -- Communication Through Friction -- Concluding Discussion -- References -- Power, Conflicts, and Environmental Communication in the Struggles for Water Justice in Rural Chile: Insights from the Epistemologies of the South and the Anthropology of Power -- Introduction -- Environmental Communication from a Conflict- and Power-Oriented Perspective -- Anthropologies of Power, Epistemologies of the South, and Their Relevance for a Critical and Situated Conceptualization of Environmental Communication -- Environmental Communication and Power in the Struggles for Water Justice in Chile -- A Critical Environmental Communication Analysis of Water Conflicts in Chile: Knowledge and Power over Water and Epistemologies of the South -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- Commentary -- Introduction -- Attempts to Decolonize Land While Challenging Modernization -- Acknowledgment of a Diversity of Thoughts -- Exploitation and Commodification of Natural Resources and Knowledge -- Risk Communication, Perception, and Agency -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- Index.

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