Weathering the World : : Recovery in the Wake of the Tsunami in a Tamil Fishing Village / / Frida Hastrup.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Hastrup, Frida,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2011]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology ; 16
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (158 p.)

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 practices and theorisations, resulting in a complex and continuous recreation of village life. By showing the composite nature of the tsunami as an event, the book adds new theoretical insight into the anthropology of natural disaster and recovery.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Processing Disaster and Recovery -- 2. The Field: Entrance and Emergence -- 3. The Dwelling: Homes and Hazards -- 4. On Forecasting: Wind and Water -- 5. Responsibility: Agents and Agencies -- 6. Confusing Hardships: Onslaught and Opportunity -- 7. Materialisations of Loss: Monument and Memory -- 8. Everyday Life: Tsunami Time -- Bibliography -- Index