Environmental Winds: Making the Global in Southwest China Herpetology These scales are designed to

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Beginning with the plagues that ravaged Eurasia in the fourteenth century

and physical anthropology

We come to see California's indigenous people as active agents of environmental change and stewardship

the uniquely human ability to deny reality in the face of inarguable evidence - including the willful ignorance of our own inevitable deaths

Environmental Winds: Making the Global in Southwest China Herpetology These scales are designed toEnvironmental Winds challenges the notion that globalized social formations emerged solely in the Global North prior to impacting the Global South. Instead, such formations have been constituted, transformed, and propelled through diverse, site specific social interactions that complicate and defy divisions between 'global' and 'local.' The book brings the reader into the lives of Chinese scientists, officials, villagers, and expatriate