Weathering the World Recovery in the Wake of the Tsunami in a Tamil Fishing Village
Fr. 24.90
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Produktdetails
Format
Kopierschutz
Ja
Family Sharing
Ja
Text-to-Speech
Nein
Erscheinungsdatum
30.08.2011
Verlag
Berghahn BooksSeitenzahl
158 (Printausgabe)
Dateigröße
4751 KB
Auflage
1
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9780857452009
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.
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