Climate Change in Leukerbad and Beyond: Re-Visioning Our Cultures of Energy and Environment

As anthropologists, we seek to understand and translate, helping to make the experiences of one place/time/people intelligible to those who inhabit different lifeworlds. Climate change is a universal experience but one that unfolds in its own way for each individual and in each locale. In the first version of this volume (Strauss 2009), I presented the case of Leukerbad in Switzerland, where I have worked to understand the “social lives” (cf. Appadurai 1986) of water, weather, and climate since 1997.