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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.

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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Religion can play a dual role with regard to conflict. It can promote either violence or peace. Religion and Conflict Attribution seeks to clarify the causes of religious conflict as perceived by Christian, Muslim and Hindu college students in Tamil Nadu, India. These students in varying degrees attribute conflict to force-driven causes, namely to coercive power as a means of achieving the economic, political or socio-cultural goals of religious groups. The study reveals how force-driven religious conflict is influenced by prescriptive beliefs like religious practice and mystical experience, and descriptive beliefs such as the interpretation of religious plurality and religiocentrism. It also elaborates on the practical consequences of the salient findings for the educational process.

291 --- Godsdienstwetenschap: vergelijkend --- Violence --- Peace --- Christianity --- Islam --- Hinduism --- Religion --- Philosophy & Religion --- Religion - General --- Religious aspects --- Religions --- Brahmanism --- Mohammedanism --- Muhammadanism --- Muslimism --- Mussulmanism --- Muslims --- Church history --- Peace (Theology) --- Religion and peace --- Prayers for peace --- Violence (in religion, folklore, etc.) --- Moral and religious aspects --- Christianity. --- Islam. --- Hinduism. --- Religion. --- Religious aspects. --- Tamil Nadu (India) --- India --- Religion, Primitive --- Atheism --- God --- Irreligion --- Theology --- Tamil Nadu --- Tamilnad (India) --- Tamishagam (India) --- Tamizhagam (India : State) --- Tamilnadu (India) --- Tamilanāḍu (India) --- Thamilnadu (India) --- Madras (India : State) --- humanities --- Explained variation --- Hindus --- In-group and out-group --- Monism --- Mysticism --- Religiocentrism --- Socioeconomics --- Hindus. --- Monism. --- Muslims. --- Mysticism. --- Economics --- Sociological aspects.

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Analyses the phenomenon of M.G. Ramachandran (MGR), the legendary film star-cum-politician of Tamil Nadu, as a modern day political myth!

Politics and culture --- Popular culture --- Motion pictures --- Public opinion --- Hegemony --- Politicians --- Actors --- Regions & Countries - Asia & the Middle East --- History & Archaeology --- South Asia --- Stage actors --- Theater actors --- Theatrical actors --- Artists --- Entertainers --- Theater --- Statesmen --- Hegemonism --- Political science --- Sociology --- Unipolarity (International relations) --- Opinion, Public --- Perception, Public --- Popular opinion --- Public perception --- Public perceptions --- Judgment --- Social psychology --- Attitude (Psychology) --- Focus groups --- Reputation --- Cinema --- Feature films --- Films --- Movies --- Moving-pictures --- Audio-visual materials --- Mass media --- Performing arts --- Culture, Popular --- Mass culture --- Pop culture --- Popular arts --- Communication --- Intellectual life --- Mass society --- Recreation --- Culture --- Culture and politics --- History --- Political aspects --- Social aspects --- History and criticism --- Rāmaccantiran̲, Em. Ji., --- Public opinion. --- Tamil Nadu (India) --- Politics and government --- Social conditions --- Ramachandran, M. G., --- Rāmacandra, Em. Ji., --- Em. Ji. Ār., --- M. G. R., --- Rāmaccantiran̲, M. G., --- Tamilnad (India) --- Tamishagam (India) --- Tamizhagam (India : State) --- Tamil Nadu --- Tamilnadu (India) --- Tamilanāḍu (India) --- Thamilnadu (India) --- Madras (India : State)