Engaging environments in Tonga : cultivating beauty and nurturing relations in a changing world / Arne Aleksej Perminow.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Perminow, Arne Aleksej, author.

Contributor:

Knowledge Unlatched, Funder.

Series:

Pacific perspectives ; Volume 9.

Pacific perspectives : studies of the European society for oceanists ; Volume 9

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human ecology--Tonga--Kotu.

Human ecology.

Sea level--Tonga--Kotu.

Sea level.

Kotu (Tonga)--Environmental conditions.

Kotu (Tonga).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 229 pages).

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Berghahn Books, 2023.

Language Note:

eng

Summary:

"On March 11, 2011, a tsunami warning was issued for Tonga in Polynesia. On the low and small island of Kotu, people were unperturbed in the face of impending catastrophe. The book starts out from the puzzle of peoples' responses and reactions to this warning as well as their attitudes to a gradual rise of sea level and questions why people seemed so unconcerned about this and the accompanying loss of land. The book is an ethnography of the relationship between people and their environment based on fieldwork over three decades"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : an environmental puzzle

Moving to the beat of a marine environment

Daily motions of merging and separation

Lunar motions of growth and regeneration

Creating tableaux of moving beauty

Nurturing flows between hands that let go

Conclusion : calamity, sacrifice and blessing in a changing world

Appendix. Words of a world in motion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on print version of record.

Publisher Number:

https://doi.org/10.3167/9781800734548

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access