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Jerry C. Zee, "Continent in Dust: Experiments in a Chinese Weather System" (U California Press, 2022)

New Books in Anthropology

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Is the Environment Changing?

Mona Charen: I was really interested in the juxtaposition of a bunch of different ways that people are telling these environmental stories, anshaping environmental time. And so it's not just that, you know, sand will give us a different story on its own, but the way that sand comes and and people interact with it, and, you kno, allow their imaginations to be shaped by it, but also act on it. She says her book is tightly argumented; all these questions keep flowing out of each other. But i'm thinking about what you said earlier, about rethinking the ature of the political right,. she adds. "I mean, one of

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