Heat Stress and Culture in North India

Planalp, Jack M

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“…Planalp offers his interpretations of the hugely geographically and culturally varied ‘villages of North India’ with some reference to its ‘vast and varied population’ (31). However, he details many ways in which people are, themselves, able to avoid extremes of heat (31).…”

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“…In the same decade, a cultural anthropologist working for the US Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine published a ‘Special Technical Report’ on heat stress and culture in North India ( 31 ). Planalp offers his interpretations of the hugely geographically and culturally varied ‘villages of North India’ with some reference to its ‘vast and varied population’ ( 31 ). However, he details many ways in which people are, themselves, able to avoid extremes of heat ( 31 ).…”

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Perceptions of, and reactions to, environmental heat: a brief note on issues of concern in relation to occupational health

Hollowell

2010

Global Health Action

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Average temperatures around the world are already increasing, and climate change projections suggest that global mean temperatures will continue to rise. As the effects, and projected effects, of climate change are becoming clearer, it is more apparent that the health effects of heat exposure will need further investigation. The risks associated with heat exposure are especially relevant to understandings of occupational health for people involved in labouring or agricultural work in low-income countries. This review is a partial look at the ways in which issues surrounding heat exposure and occupational health have been treated in some of the available literature. This literature focuses on military-related medical understandings of heat exposure as well as heat exposure in working environments. The ways that these issues have been treated throughout the literature reflect the ways in which technologies of observation are intertwined with social attitudes. The effects of heat on the health of working people, as well as identification of risk groups, will require further research in order to promote prophylactic measures as well as to add to understandings of the actual and potential consequences of climatic change.

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Perceptions of, and reactions to, environmental heat: a brief note on issues of concern in relation to occupational health

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2010

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“…*• ' Acland (1847:32). 411 Planalp (1971) provides a comprehensive review of Indian and British perceptions of and responses to climatic heat in northern India.…”

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The Nineteenth-Century Indo-American Ice Trade: An Hyperborean Epic

Dickason

1991

Mod. Asian Stud.

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Thus it appears that the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well. In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagvat Gceta [sic], since whose composition years of the gods have elapsed, and in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seem puny and trivial; and I doubt if that philosophy is not to be referred to a previous state of existence, so remote is its sublimity from our conceptions. I lay down the book and go to my well for water, and lo! there I meet the servant of the Bramin [sic], priest of Brahma and Vishnu, and Indra, who sits in his temple on the Ganges reading the Vedas, or dwells at the root of a tree with his crust and water jug. I meet his servant come to draw water for his master, and our buckets as it were grate together in the same well. The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred waters of the Ganges. With favouring winds it is wafted past the site of the fabulous islands of Atlantis and the Hcspcridcs, makes the Periplus of Hanno, and floating by Tcrnatc and Tidorc and the mouth of the Persian Gulf, melts in the tropic gales of the Indian seas, and is landed in ports of which Alexander only heard the names. 1 So Henry David Thoreau alluded to the Indo-American ice trade-a trade based on shipping ice produced of Massachusetts' winters to the ice-free world of India where its chill relieved the stress of tropic climes by frosting beverages, soothing fevered brows, and preserving perishable foods.

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“…Onegdfhe authors' findings, that people respond to weather in a relative, rather than an Com mentary absolute, fashion (p. 56), was supported by studies conducted several decades ago (Mills and Ogle 1933;Shattuck and Hilferty 1936;Schickele 1947). O n the basis of a very comprehensive literature review, Planalp (1971) concludes that during the 1930s and 1940s, heat fatalities were as much determined by relative as by absolute heat stress. Kalkstein and Davis regionalize t h e U.S. into eight climatic regions but fail t o provide the criteria for such a division ( fig.…”

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“…A study of the 1939 and 1955 heat waves in California (Goldsmith e t al. 1970) revealed that t h e daily mortality rate for persons over 80 years old doubled when the temperature reached 104"F, and tripled when the temperature reached 107.5"F. The areas of greatest hazard from heat stroke appear t o be the Upper Great Plains states (e.g., Iowa and Nebraska) and the Eastern Seaboard states (e.g., Pennsylvania, Maryland and New York City) (Planalp 1971).…”

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On “Weather and Human Mortality'’by Kalkstein and Davis

Rao

1990

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

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Heat Stress and Culture in North India

Cited by 9 publications

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Perceptions of, and reactions to, environmental heat: a brief note on issues of concern in relation to occupational health

Perceptions of, and reactions to, environmental heat: a brief note on issues of concern in relation to occupational health

The Nineteenth-Century Indo-American Ice Trade: An Hyperborean Epic

On “Weather and Human Mortality'’by Kalkstein and Davis

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