Engaging Environments in Tonga
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80073-454-8 (ISBN)
On March 11, 2011, a tsunami warning was issued for Tonga in Polynesia. On the low and small island of Kotu, people were unperturbed in the face of impending catastrophe. The book starts out from the puzzle of peoples’ responses and reactions to this warning as well as their attitudes to a gradual rise of sea level and questions why people seemed so unconcerned about this and the accompanying loss of land. The book is an ethnography of the relationship between people and their environment based on fieldwork over three decades.
Arne Aleksej Perminow is Associate Professor of Social Anthropology and keeper of the Oceania Collection at the Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo. He has curated several exhibitions including Startpaths across the Pacific: Narratives of Origin in Oceania and the Pacific part of Collapse: Human Being in an Unpredictable World (Museum of Cultural History, 2006 and 2018).
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction: An Environmental Puzzle
Chapter 1. Moving to the Beat of a Marine Environment
Chapter 2. Daily Motions of Merging and Separation
Chapter 3. Lunar Motions of Growth and Regeneration
Chapter 4. Creating Tableaux of Moving Beauty
Chapter 5. Nurturing Flows Between Hands That Let Go
Conclusion: Calamity, Sacrifice and Blessing in a Changing World
Appendix: Words of a World in Motion
Glossary
References
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 15.02.2022 |
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Reihe/Serie | Pacific Perspectives: Studies of the European Society for Oceanists |
Verlagsort | Oxford |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz |
Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 1-80073-454-9 / 1800734549 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-80073-454-8 / 9781800734548 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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