Weathering the world: Recovery in the wake of the tsunami in a Tamil fishing village

Weathering the World: Recovery in the Wake of the Tsunami in a Tamil Fishing Village

Volumn 16, Issue , 2011, Pages 1-150

  Hastrup, Frida ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

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