Weathering the World - Recovery in the Wake of the Tsunami in a Tamil Fishing Village (Hardcover)

The Asian tsunami in December 2004 severely affected people in coastal regions all around the Indian Ocean. This book provides the first in-depth ethnography of the disaster and its effects on a fishing village in Tamil Nadu, India. The author explores how the villagers have lived with the tsunami in the years succeeding it and actively worked to gradually regain a sense of certainty and confidence in their environment in the face of disempowering disaster. What appears is a remarkable local recovery process in which the survivors have interwoven the tsunami and the everyday in a series of subtle practices and theorisations, resulting in a complex and continuous recreation of village life. By showing the composite nature of the tsunami as an event, the book adds new theoretical insight into the anthropology of natural disaster and recovery.

General

Imprint:	Berghahn Books
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology
Release date:	August 2011
Authors:	Frida Hastrup
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	158
ISBN-13:	978-0-85745-199-6
Categories:	Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Environmental impact of natural disasters & phenomena Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Social impact of disasters > General
LSN:	0-85745-199-5
Barcode:	9780857451996

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