01841 a2200253 4500 1598742698 20250317100406.0 250312042010GB eng 9781598742695 Taylor & Francis GBP 46.99 BB 01 eng NK thema HD bic SOC003000 bisac 930.1028 bisac John Grattan Living Under the Shadow Cultural Impacts of Volcanic Eruptions 1 Oxford Routledge 20100415 320 p Popularist treatments of ancient disasters like volcanic eruptions have grossly overstated their capacity for death, destruction, and societal collapse. Contributors to this volume—from anthropology, archaeology, environmental studies, geology, and biology—show that human societies have been incredibly resilient and, in the long run, have often recovered remarkably well from wide scale disruption and significant mortality. They have often used eruptions as a trigger for environmental enrichment, cultural change, and adaptation. These historical studies are relevant to modern hazard management because they provide records for a far wider range of events and responses than have been recorded in written records, yet are often closely datable and trackable using standard archaeological and geological techniques. Contributors also show the importance of traditional knowledge systems in creating a cultural memory of dangerous locations and community responses to disaster. The global and temporal coverage of the research reported is impressive, comprising studies from North and Central America, Europe, Asia, and the Pacific, and ranging in time from the Middle Palaeolithic to the modern day. Robin Torrence B01 1778 1778