The World Cultures eJournal welcomes articles, data, and comparative research material dealing with any aspect of human behavior. Publication of any comparative database, regional or worldwide, will be considered. Submissions of programs and teaching materials are welcomed, as are communications on research, coding, sources, and other materials of interests to comparative researchers.
Current Issue, Volume 22, Issue 2, 2017
Special Issue: Primary Food Producers, Climate Change, and Cultural Models of Nature
Giovanni Bennardo, Editor.
Climate change is one of the most challenging issues we collectively face as it threatens the survival of our species. Extensive action must be implemented worldwide to minimize its potential and disastrous effects. Primary food producers’ daily and close contact with the environment makes them most directly affected by climate change. They will likely be asked to implement whatever new and/or radical remedial policies are proposed. Before carrying out any strategies directly impacting these populations, it would be prudent to understand their Cultural Models (from now on, CMs) of Nature.
Articles
Introduction: Primary Food Producers, Climate Change, and Cultural Models of Nature
Bennardo, Giovanni
The Moon Makes Yams Grow: Tongans (Polynesians) and Nature
Bennardo, Giovanni
Lithuanian Farmers, Nature and the Ties that Bind
de Munck, Victor
Care for the Soil and Live Respectfully: A Cultural Model of Environmental Change in Andean Northern Ecuador
Jones, Eric C
Categories and Cultural Models of Nature in Northern Punjab, Pakistan
Lyon, Stephen M; Mughal, Muhammad Aurang Zeb
It Was like Velvet: Cultural Nature in Vinigo (Dolomites)
Paini, Anna Maria
Like a Bonsai Tree: Models of Food Production and Nature in the Northern Kanto Plain of Japan
Shimizu, Hidetada
No Easy Talk about the Weather: Eliciting “Cultural Models of Nature” among Hai//om
Widlok, Thomas
Fishermen’s Concepts of Environmental and Climate Change in Batangas, Philippines
Wiegele, Katharine L
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