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Post-Tsunami Recovery in Thailand - Socio-cultural responses (Paperback)
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Post-Tsunami Recovery in Thailand - Socio-cultural responses (Paperback)
Series: The Modern Anthropology of Southeast Asia
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Of all the huge natural disasters that claimed the lives of
thousands in Asia, the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004 was the
largest, estimated to have killed more than 230,000 people. The
scope of damage brought about by this natural disaster urges focus
on recovery and post-disaster reconstruction from several
perspectives. Here we find an in-depth ethnography of Thailand and
the role of culture and religion as an underpinning issue in
post-disaster recovery. Following the post-tsunami recovery over
five years, the book provides knowledge on socio-cultural responses
from affected local communities after natural hazards, and is based
on original material collected in Thailand after the 2004 tsunami.
With a focus on how culture and religion interplay in the processes
of building resilience and decreasing vulnerability, it gives a
deeper understanding of how disasters are experienced and dealt
with on a local level. It examines survivors' experiences of
rituals and ceremonies that became a part of the survivors' lives
in new ways after the tsunami, offering psychological reassurance
and religious efficaciousness as well as communication links
between themselves and the deceased. Using observations, narratives
and material from in-depth interviews with survivors, relatives,
relief workers, officials and Buddhist monks and nuns, this book
contributes to the research on anthropology of disaster and to the
development of research on cultural resilience and religion in
post-disaster recovery. It will be of interest to scholars of
Disaster Studies, Buddhist Studies and Asian Studies.
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