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Weathering the world : recovery in the wake of the tsunami in a Tamil fishing village / Frida Hastrup.
Van Pelt Library HV636 2004.I4 H37 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hastrup, Frida.
- Series:
- Studies in environmental anthropology and ethnobiology ; v. 16.
- Studies in environmental anthropology and ethnobiology ; v. 16
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indian Ocean Tsunami, 2004.
- Tsunamis--India--Tamil Nadu.
- Tsunamis.
- Natural disasters--India--Tamil Nadu.
- Natural disasters.
- Tamil Nadu (India)--Social conditions.
- Tamil Nadu (India).
- Tamil Nadu (India)--Environmental conditions.
- India--Tamil Nadu.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 150 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Berghahn Books, 2011.
- Summary:
- Hastrup (a postdoctoral fellow in anthropology at the U. of Copenhagen, Denmark) presents an ethnographic study of the effects of the 2004 Asian tsunami on a fishing village in Tamil Nadu, India. She analyzes the villagers' approach to recovery as an issue of local agency theorizing about everyday life providing the means for managing invasive changes of the local environment and for returning to ordinary life. These efforts involve the struggle to (re)create a sense of subjective agency both in the face of the tsunami as well as the precarious social, environmental, and economic conditions characteristic of a rural community dependent on scarce natural resources. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780857451996
- 0857451995
- 9780857452009
- 0857452002
- OCLC:
- 714734849
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