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Engaging environments in Tonga [electronic book] : cultivating beauty and nurturing relations in a changing world / Arne Aleksej Perminow.

By: Perminow, Arne Aleksej [author].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Pacific perspectives: Publisher: New York : Berghahn Books, 2023Copyright date: ©2023Description: online resource (246 pages).Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781800734548 (hardback); 9781805390657 (e-Book).Subject(s): Human ecology -- Tonga-Kotu | Sea level -- Tonga -- KotuDDC classification: 304.2 Online resources: e-Book
Contents:
Moving to the beat of a marine environment -- Daily motions of merging and separation -- Lunar motions of growth and regeneration -- Creating tableaus of moving beauty -- Nurturing flows between hands that let go -- Calamity, sacrifice and blessing in a changing world.
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.
List(s) this item appears in: Sustainable Development Goals Collection
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e-BOOK MTU Bishopstown Library eBook 304.2 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not for loan
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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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Moving to the beat of a marine environment -- Daily motions of merging and separation -- Lunar motions of growth and regeneration -- Creating tableaus of moving beauty -- Nurturing flows between hands that let go -- Calamity, sacrifice and blessing in a changing world.

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.

Electronic reproduction.: Knowledge Unlatched. Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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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).

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