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Weathering the World: Recovery in the Wake of the Tsunami in a Tamil Fishing Village (Studies in Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology, Band 16)

Hastrup, Frida

 
9780857451996: Weathering the World: Recovery in the Wake of the Tsunami in a Tamil Fishing Village (Studies in Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology, Band 16)
ISBN 10: 0857451995 ISBN 13: 9780857451996
Verlag: Berghahn Books, 2011

Inhaltsangabe

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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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Frida Hastrup is a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen. She holds a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Copenhagen, and has conducted long-term fieldwork in South India. Her current research addresses local responses to environmental changes in the Bay of Bengal area, with a specific focus on flooding, cyclones and coastal erosion.

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The Asian tsunami in December 2004 was reported on exhaustively all around the world. But this is the first full-length examination of the disaster. Providing an in-depth ethnography of the tsunami and its effects on a fishing village on the coast of Tamil Nadu, India, the author shows how disaster survivors have dealt with the tsunami and worked to regain their confidence in the environment on which they depend for their livelihood. The book testifies to a remarkable local recovery process and demonstrates the survivors' commitment to restoring a sense of certainty and future possibilities even when faced with disempowering disaster. Furthermore, through its focus on the physicality of disaster, i.e. its particular material character and the environmental dimension of recovery, the book adds new theoretical insight to anthropological studies of disaster that have so far tended to focus more on the politics of disaster than on the materiality of such events.

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Verlag
Berghahn Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2011
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0857451995
ISBN 13 
9780857451996
Einband
Bibliothekseinband
Anzahl der Seiten
160
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