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  1. 1. Waves of Disaster – Waves of Relief : An Ethnography of Humanitarian Assistance to Post-Tsunami Sri Lanka

    Magister-uppsats, Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologi

    Författare :Jesper Bjarnesen; [2006]
    Nyckelord :Tsunami; Sri Lanka; humanitarian assistance; disaster; suffering; ;

    Sammanfattning : Abstract This paper applies an impressionistic and reflexive genre of ethnography to understand the ethnographer’s meeting with the humanitarian aid workers in post-tsunami Sri Lanka. It offers an analysis of the political atmosphere in the country prior to the tsunami as a central framework for understanding current tensions and debates over the distribution of tsunami aid resources, and traces the emergence of what has been termed Sinhala-Buddhist nationalism. LÄS MER