Engaging Environments in Tonga
Cultivating Beauty and Nurturing Relations in a Changing World
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Berghahn Books
Published:1st Sep '24
Should be back in stock very soon
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.
“The book is well-argued, clearly written, and a timely contribution to an important theme (socio-cultural aspects of environmental change, including climate change, in the Pacific). I have yet to see a monograph approach the theme with the same ethnographic depth as this book.”• Tom Bratrud, University of South-Eastern Norway
ISBN: 9781805397151
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244 pages