List of Figures and Tables Acknowledgements Note on Contributors Introduction to the Second Edition of The Angry Earth: From Introduction to Widespread Reception (Susanna M. Hoffman and Anthony Oliver-Smith) Introduction to the First Edition. Anthropology and the Angry Earth: An Overview (Susanna M. Hoffman and Anthony Oliver-Smith) I. DISASTERS, ENVIRONMENT AND CULTURE What is a Disaster? Anthropological Perspectives on a Persistent Question (Anthony Oliver-Smith) Postscript: Hazards of Nature, Disasters of Society II. ENVIRONMENTAL PATTERN, HAZARDS AND CULTURE: THE ARCHEOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE Convergent Catastrophes: Geoarcheological Perspectives on Collateral Natural Disasters and Cultural Change in the Central Andes (Michael E. Moseley) Postscript: Convergent Catastrophe: Past Patterns and Future Implications of Collateral natural Disaster in the Andres Explosive Volcanic Eruptions and Societal Responses: A Comparative Archeological Study in Middle America (Payson Sheets) Postscript: When the Natural Hazard Becomes a Cultural Disaster III. THE CULTURAL CONSTRUCTION OF CATASTROPHE Peru’s Five-Hundred Year Earthquake: Vulnerability in Historical Context (Anthony Oliver-Smith) Postscript: The Five Hundred Year Earthquake: Seeking Root Causes and Deep Drivers Examining Vulnerability to Natural Disasters: A Comparative Analysis of Four Southern California Communities After the Northridge Earthquake (Lois Stanford and Robert Bolin) Postscript: Vulnerability Then and Now The Negation of a Disaster: The Media Response to Oils Spills in Great Britain (Gregory V. Button) Postscript: Continued Disavowal and The Advent of Social Media IV. HOW CULTURES RESPOND "The Worst of Times, the Best of Times": Toward a Model of Cultural Response to Disaster (Susanna M. Hoffman) Postscript: Behind the States and Act Four: More to the Worst of Times, the Best of Times Model Vulnerability, Disaster, and Survival in Bangladesh: Three Case Studies (Mohammad Q. Zaman) Postscript: Integrated Approach to Risk Reduction and Development "Tell Them We’re Hurting": Hurricane Andrew, the Culture of Response, and the Fishing Peoples of South Florida and Louisiana (Christopher L. Dyer and James M. McGoodwin) Postscript: Recognizing the Diversity of Disaster Impacts: The Need for Response Protocols, Anticipation, and Human Rights Epidemics and Disasters: From the Venezuela Delta Amacuro to the Mississippi Wetlands (Charles Briggs and Anne M. Lovell) Drought: A Challenge to Livelihoods, Sustainability, and Resilience (J. Terrence McCabe and Amy Quandt) The Brotherhood of Pain: Emotion and Social Organization in the Crisis of Disaster (Anthony Oliver-Smith) Postscript: Communitas and Resilience The Regenesis of Traditional Gender Patterns in the Wake of Disaster (Susanna M. Hoffman) Postscript: Still With Us After all These Years; But Slowly Changing V. AGENCIES, SURVIVORS AND CULTURE Plan and Pattern in Reaction to Earthquake: Peru, 1970-1998 (Paul L. Doughty) Postscript: Revisiting a Scene of Disaster, Again Bhopal and Beyond: An Anthropology of Relief and Rehabilitation Efforts and Prospects for a Socially Relevant Political Ecology of Disaster Management (Ravi Rajan) Postscript: The Bhopal Gas Disaster Three Decades On The Phoenix Effect in Post-Disaster Recovery: An Analysis of the Economic Development Administration's Culture of Response After Hurricane Andrew (Christopher L. Dyer) Postscript: The Phoenix Effect Revisited: Hurricane Andrew, South Florida, and the Rise of Punctuated Entropy Disaster Anthropology in Non-Governmental Organizations (Adam Koons) Disaster and Climate Change-related Displacements and Resettlements: Cultural and Political Ecologies of Space, Power, and Practice (A.J. Faas, Roberto Barrios, Elizabeth Marino, and Julie Maldonado) VI. DISASTER AND CULTURAL CONTINUITY Islands on an Angry Earth: Climate Change, Disasters, and Implications for Two Island Communities (Heather Lazrus and Carlos Arenas) After Atlas Shrugs: Cultural Persistence and Perpetuation in the Context of Disaster (Susanna Hoffman) Postscript: The Question of Culture Continuity and Change After a Disaster Twenty Years Later Index