Household relationship with community

People who are fatalistic about hazard activity are unlikely to prepare (Turner et al. 1986). Another dispositional characteristic that reduces preparedness is denial (Crozier et al. 2006). If people believe that they have no control over an earthquake and/or its activity, they can attempt to cope with this by denying the seriousness of the risk. Household and personal preparedness is also less likely if people believe that risk management agencies are responsible for all aspects of public safety and so transfer responsibility for community preparedness from themselves to agencies (Patou and McCliue 2013). Certain characteristics of people s social relationships influence preparedness. 

At the same time, the temple institutions of fourth-millennium Mesopotamia did not operate alone, nor were they autonomous, even in the south (Pollock 1999 101). Rather, they accompanied the households that established branches of themselves in the colonies of the Middle Euphrates and elsewhere. The term colony remains appropriate whereas colonialism does not, because these centers remained attached to the home city - that was their very purpose. And it is evidenced by the inescapable fact that, over a period of several centuries, styles in material culture did not diverge between the various points in the system (Stein 1999a 21) changes over time tracked between south, north, and east. This would suggest not just continued interaction but continued identification of one community with another, southern bases and northern offshoots, maintained by conscious effort. The flow of contact was not merely bidirectional, however, and relationships of power were not analogous to parent/child. Both constituted a complex network that enmeshed members of the extended family located in residences in the south, in the north, in the east, and in whatever pasture the concatenation of current conditions rendered available. 

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