Anthropology has had a long tradition to address disaster. Though, not in the label of disaster anthropology, initiated its passage of studying the adaptive strategies of the people in stressful and hazardous environment in 1950s, the discipline has come across multiple shifts in theoretical frames within. Contemporary research trends in anthropology claim an interdisciplinary attention to understand disaster as a process in the matrix of rapid and varied global change. At this juncture, the present authors have tried to focus on the shifts of anthropological approaches to disaster since its gestation in one hand, and, to indicate the contemporary trends of disaster research within the discipline of anthropology to support its claim of collaborative disaster researches on the other.
Anthropology, Disaster, Theory, Interdisciplinarity
