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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

Indian Ocean Tsunami, 2004. --- Tsunamis --- Natural disasters --- Natural calamities --- Disasters --- Earthquake sea waves --- Seismic sea waves --- Seismic surges --- Tidal waves --- Tunamis --- Ocean waves --- Asian Tsunami, 2004 --- Boxing Day Tsunami, 2004 --- Indonesian Tsunami, 2004 --- Sumatra-Andaman Tsunami, 2004 --- Tamil Nadu (India) --- Tamilnad (India) --- Tamishagam (India) --- Tamizhagam (India : State) --- Tamil Nadu --- Tamilnadu (India) --- Tamilanāḍu (India) --- Thamilnadu (India) --- Madras (India : State) --- Social conditions. --- Environmental conditions.

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In one form or another, water participates in the making and unmaking of people’s lives, practices, and stories. Contributors’ detailed ethnographic work analyzes the union and mutual shaping of water and social lives. This volume discusses current ecological disturbances and engages in a world where unbounded relationalities and unsettled frames of orientation mark the lives of all, anthropologists included. Water emerges as a fluid object in more senses than one, challenging anthropologists to foreground the mutable character of their objects of study and to responsibly engage with the generative role of cultural analysis.

Water --- Water use --- Water and civilization --- Human ecology --- Social aspects --- Water and civilization. --- Human ecology. --- #SBIB:39A4 --- Ecology --- Environment, Human --- Human beings --- Human environment --- Ecological engineering --- Human geography --- Nature --- Civilization and water --- Civilization --- Hydrology --- Use of water --- Utilization of water --- Water utilization --- Water-supply --- Social aspects. --- Toegepaste antropologie --- Effect of environment on --- Effect of human beings on --- Utilization --- Water - Social aspects --- Water use - Social aspects

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In studying material culture, anthropologists and archaeologists use meaningful physical objects from a culture to help understand the less tangible aspects of that culture, such as societal structure, rituals, and values. What happens when these objects are destroyed, by war, natural disaster, or other historical events? Through detailed explanations of eleven international case studies, the contributions reveal that the absence of objects can be just as telling as their presence, while the objects created to memorialize a loss also have important cultural implications. Covering everything from organ donation, to funerary rituals, to prisoners of war, The Anthropology of Absence is written at an important intersection of archaeological and anthropological study. Divided into three sections, this volume uses the "presence" of absence to compare cultural perceptions of: material qualities and created memory, the mind/body connection, temporality, and death. This rich text provides a strong theoretical framework for anthropologists and archaeologists studying material culture.

Sociology of cultural policy --- Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- cultureel erfgoed --- antropologie