The Bengkulu premonition: cultural pluralism and hybridity in disaster risk reduction The Bengkulu premonition
The Bengkulu premonition: cultural pluralism and hybridity in disaster risk reduction The Bengkulu premonition
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明古鲁预感：减少灾害风险中的文化多元化和混合性 明古鲁预感
DOI：
10.1111/j.1475-4762.2011.01029.x
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发表时间：
2011
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影响因子：
2.2
通讯作者：
Shannon R
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作者：
Shannon R
土著社区为应对反复发生的灾害事件而积累的知识、应对战略和专门知识，是减少灾害风险的重要组成部分。然而，有一种趋势是，土著社会被视为独立于现代工业社会，与现代工业社会形成鲜明对比。全球化日益意味着，地方文化是通过地方传统和全球进程的相互关系以及由此可能产生的文化融合而产生的。2007年11月和12月，一位巴西神秘主义者的预感传遍了本库卢市，预言该市将于当年12月23日发生破坏性海啸地震。谢天谢地，地震没有发生，但谣言在该市居民中引起了相当大的恐慌。这篇文章考察了这种预感，并展示了它对当地人理解和应对地震和海啸灾害的混合和多元方式的洞察。
Knowledge, coping strategies, and expertise that have accumulated within indigenous communities in response to repeated hazard events, are an important part of disaster risk reduction. There is a tendency, however, for indigenous societies to be treated as if they are separate from and contrast sharply with modern industrial societies. Increasingly, globalisation means local cultures are produced through the inter‐relationship of local traditions and global processes, and by the mixing of cultures that can result. In November and December 2007, a premonition from a Brazilian mystic circulated Bengkulu City foretelling of a destructive tsunamigenic earthquake that would hit the city on the 23 December of that year. Thankfully the earthquake did not occur, but the rumour caused considerable alarm among residents of the city. This paper examines the premonition and demonstrates the insight it gives into the hybrid and plural ways in which local people make sense of and respond to earthquake and tsunami hazards.