“…there is much to recommend in this book, not least its subtlety and persuasiveness.”  ·  Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute “…the ethnographic case studies are truly fascinating and memorable. It offers fruitful ways to think about the experiential impacts of the 2004 tsunami in a wider Asian context, comparisons that should definitely be pursued on Indian Ocean shores both near and far.”  ·  Anthropos “…a well-written ethnography and a welcome contribution to a growing field of study.”  ·  Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale “Hastrup is a promising young anthropologist with a fresh and lively gaze, and this provocative volume augurs well for her future contribution to the field of environmental anthropology.”  ·  American Anthropologist “This book is a pleasure to read with its combination of intensive ethnography, its austere and almost minimal style of writing and its conceptual innovations. There is no doubt in my mind that this book it constitutes an important contribution to the manner in which we think of disaster and its relation to the everyday not only in the social sciences but also in policy sciences.”  ·  Veena Das, Johns Hopkins University