Introduction

This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book emphasizes important aspects of human agency in the archaeological record, the rapid development in the community-based and community-driven research, and a close-up view into the ethnographic underpinnings of disaster research. It deals with anthropology’s critical work within interdisciplinary research to bring all disciplines within the context of community-based projects to the fore and emphasizes the importance of bringing all relevant knowledge systems into engagement with each other. The book explores worldmaking practices as they emerge from anthropological encounters old and new. It provides insight into people’s spatial construal of temporal weather experiences. The book illustrates how climate change is experienced by the Indigenous peoples of the Gwich’in and Inuvialuit Settlement Regions of Canada’s Northwest Territories. It focuses on the insidious role of excessive wealth and inequitable resource distribution as both fuel and fodder for climate change.