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 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. ER -