Snow Trails: A Two-Voice Dialogue

By Martin de La Soudière, Martine Tabeaud
English

Snow inevitably carries a plurality of meanings, as is demonstrated by this dialogue. This is observed on many grounds: geography, culture, physics, and chemistry. The numerous names of regional or local winds as well as the regional idioms provide evidence of this characteristic. Snow is also in phase with a lot of dream registers and with many present problems of its management and uses

Keywords

  • snow
  • climatology
  • perception
  • ethnology
  • geography
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