Engaging environments in Tonga cultivating beauty and nurturing relations 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 r...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, New York :
Berghahn Books
2022
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| Colección: | Pacific perspectives,
vol. 9. |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009756540306719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Map of the Tongan Archipelago
- Map of Kotu Island
- Map of Namolahi Lagoon
- 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 Tableaus 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
