{"title":"See the winds. Practical dimensions of weather forecasting in a Japanese coastal community","authors":"Giovanni Bulian","doi":"10.1408/90450","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The article examines how folk methodologies for weather prediction influence samll-scale agricultural and fishing activities of Japanese coastal community. Specifically, the article addresses some anthropological questions on how local fishermen predict the weather by developing two diferent forecasting practices: takayama, a practical weather observation technique that combines the observation of the clouds with a traditional nautical technique for orientation at sea and, okite, a model-based weather prognostication used to forecast long-term weather trends for the following year","PeriodicalId":45303,"journal":{"name":"QUADERNI STORICI","volume":"52 1","pages":"803-824"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3000,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"QUADERNI STORICI","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1408/90450","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"HISTORY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The article examines how folk methodologies for weather prediction influence samll-scale agricultural and fishing activities of Japanese coastal community. Specifically, the article addresses some anthropological questions on how local fishermen predict the weather by developing two diferent forecasting practices: takayama, a practical weather observation technique that combines the observation of the clouds with a traditional nautical technique for orientation at sea and, okite, a model-based weather prognostication used to forecast long-term weather trends for the following year
期刊介绍:
Quaderni storici è una tra le più autorevoli sedi della ricerca storica internazionale e copre un arco cronologico che va dalla storia antica a quella contemporanea. Quaderni storici si occupa di storia sociale, storia economica, storia di genere e «microstoria». Si è avvalsa e si avvale dell"apporto di studiosi italiani e stranieri (da Alberto Caracciolo a Maurice Aymard, da Carlo Ginzburg a Peter Burke, a Carlo Poni e Pasquale Villani, a Christiane Klapisch e Gianna Pomata). Ogni fascicolo è costituito da una parte monografica che sviluppa, a più voci, grandi affreschi tematici.