TY - BOOK ID - 78071608 TI - The golden wave PY - 2014 SN - 0253011396 0253011507 9780253011503 1306166721 9781306166720 9780253011381 0253011388 9780253011398 PB - Bloomington DB - UniCat KW - Disaster victims KW - Indian Ocean Tsunami, 2004. KW - Tsunami relief KW - Disaster relief KW - Asian Tsunami, 2004 KW - Boxing Day Tsunami, 2004 KW - Indonesian Tsunami, 2004 KW - Sumatra-Andaman Tsunami, 2004 KW - Tsunamis KW - Victims of disasters KW - Victims KW - Rehabilitation KW - Sri Lanka KW - Shri Lanka KW - Lanka KW - Serendib KW - Taprobane KW - Cellao KW - Zeilan KW - Serendip KW - Sī Langkā KW - Sri Lanka Prajathanthrika Samajavadi Janarajaya KW - Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka KW - Śrīlaṅkā KW - Ilaṅkai KW - Ceylon KW - Politics and government KW - Social conditions UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78071608 AB - In December 2004 the Indian Ocean tsunami devastated coastal regions of Sri Lanka. Six months later, Michele Ruth Gamburd returned to the village where she had been conducting research for many years and began collecting residents' stories of the disaster and its aftermath: the chaos and loss of the flood itself; the sense of community and leveling of social distinctions as people worked together to recover and regroup; and the local and national politics of foreign aid as the country began to rebuild. In The Golden Wave, Gamburd describes how the catastrophe changed social identities, econ ER -