Keywords:
Volcanic eruptions-History-Congresses.
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Electronic books.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (280 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9788771840247
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=5802356
DDC:
551.21
Language:
English
Note:
Front page -- Title page -- Colophone -- Contents -- Preface -- INTRODUCTION -- Volcanic eruptions and human vulnerability in traditional societies past and present: Towards a palaeosocial volcanology -- By Felix Riede -- Chapter 1 -- Between the Queen of the South Sea and the Spirit of Mount Merapi - political and cosmological dimensions of the Central Java earthquake in 2006 -- Jens Seeberg and Retna Siwi Padmawati -- Chapter 2 -- Mount Etna, Sicily: Vulnerability and resilience during the pre-industrial era -- Heather Sangster, Angus M. Duncan and David K. Chester -- Chapter 3 -- The unknown AD 1275 stratospheric eruption: Climatic impacts in Europe and tentative volcanic source -- Franck Lavigne and Sébastien Guillet -- Chapter 4 -- What happens when 'Hider' and 'Screamer' go sailing with 'Noisy'? Geomythological traces in Old Icelandic mythology -- A. Mathias Valentin Nordvig -- Chapter 5 -- Volcanoes as cultural artefacts in Iceland: Risk perception, metaphors and categorisation in a society with no 'before' -- Lisbeth H. Torfing -- Chapter 6 -- Excavating the Fimbulwinter? Archaeology, geomythology and the climate event(s) of AD 536 -- Neil Price and Bo Gräslund -- Chapter 7 -- Islam on volcanoes: Rediscovering volcanic eruptions in the Qur'an -- Thomas Hoffmann -- Chapter 8 -- Coping with disasters in Antiquity and the Bible: Practical and mental strategies -- Jan Dietrich -- Chapter 9 -- The Santorini volcano: Volcanic hazards through time -- Walter L. Friedrich -- Chapter 10 -- 'The Boneless One' and his home: The sea and its inhabitants in religious beliefs on Crete and Thera around 1613 BC -- Annette Højen Sørensen -- Chapter 11 -- Can we date the Frog Princess? Volcanoes and peoples of the Pacific Northwest -- Kevan Edinborough -- Chapter 12.
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The days of the dry snow: Vulnerabilities and transformations related to the Mazama ash fall on the Northern Plains -- Gerald A. Oetelaar -- Chapter 13 -- 'Dominant' and 'radical' perspectives on material culture change in the wake of the catastrophic Laacher See volcanic eruption (c. 13,000 cal BP) in Northern Europe -- Felix Riede -- Chapter 14 -- Human vulnerability in a Middle Palaeolithic context: Response of hunter-gatherers in India to the Toba supervolcanic eruption 74,000 years ago -- Sacha Jones -- List of contributors.
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