Engaging environments in Tonga : cultivating beauty and nurturing relations in a changing world / Arne Aleksej Perminow.
"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...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Berghahn,
2022.
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| Series: | Pacific perspectives
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| Online Access: | Click here to view this book JSTOR Open Access |
| Summary: | "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"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 229 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781800734555 1800734557 |