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Frida Hastrup - Weathering the World - 9780857451996 - V9780857451996
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Weathering the World

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Description for Weathering the World Hardback. 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.. Series: Studies in Environmental Anthropology & Ethnobiology. Num Pages: 176 pages, 12 ills. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JFFC; RNR. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 158 x 14. Weight in Grams: 358.

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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Berghahn Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
Series
Studies in Environmental Anthropology & Ethnobiology
Number of Pages
158
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780857451996
SKU
V9780857451996
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Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15

About Frida Hastrup
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.

Reviews for Weathering the World
“…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 ... Read more

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