Weathering the world : recovery in the wake of the tsunami in a Tamil fishing village / / Frida Hastrup

• Autore: Hastrup Frida
• Pubblicazione: New York, : Berghahn Books, c2011
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (160 pages)
• Disciplina: 363.34/94095482; 363.3494095482
• Soggetto topico: Indian Ocean Tsunami, 2004; Tsunamis - India - Tamil Nadu; Natural disasters - India - Tamil Nadu
• Soggetto geografico: Tamil Nadu (India) Social conditions; Tamil Nadu (India) Environmental conditions
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Weathering the World; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Chapter 7; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 ev
• Titolo autorizzato: Weathering the world
• ISBN: 0-85745-200-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910820608003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies in environmental anthropology and ethnobiology ; ; v. 16.