TY - BOOK ID - 78716784 TI - Weathering the world : recovery in the wake of the tsunami in a Tamil fishing village PY - 2011 SN - 0857452002 9780857452009 0857451995 9780857451996 9780857451996 PB - New York : Berghahn Books, DB - UniCat KW - Indian Ocean Tsunami, 2004. KW - Tsunamis KW - Natural disasters KW - Natural calamities KW - Disasters KW - Earthquake sea waves KW - Seismic sea waves KW - Seismic surges KW - Tidal waves KW - Tunamis KW - Ocean waves KW - Asian Tsunami, 2004 KW - Boxing Day Tsunami, 2004 KW - Indonesian Tsunami, 2004 KW - Sumatra-Andaman Tsunami, 2004 KW - Tamil Nadu (India) KW - Tamilnad (India) KW - Tamishagam (India) KW - Tamizhagam (India : State) KW - Tamil Nadu KW - Tamilnadu (India) KW - Tamilanāḍu (India) KW - Thamilnadu (India) KW - Madras (India : State) KW - Social conditions. KW - Environmental conditions. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78716784 AB - 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 ER -