Things came full circle yesterday evening at the premiere of „Aftermath – The Second Flood“ at the Weltmuseum in Vienna in front of a packed house of 300 visitors. It was in the spring of 2005 that I met the anthropologist Simron Jit Singh in this overwhelmingly neo-Baroque environment of the Ethnological Museum. Weiterlesen
In September 2005 author Simron Jit Singh and I published the book „The Nicobars Islands. Cultural Choices in the Aftermath of the Tsunami“ (Czernin Verlag). Its subject is the archipelago in the Indian Ocean, which was devastated by the tsunami in December 2004. Singh describes the culture of this very isolated people – and the confrontation with today’s world that flooded the islands like a second tsunami in the form of disaster relief activities and bureaucracy. (How menial the indigenous population is treated in these confrontations is the subject of a report in the Observer from early 2012 on the neighbouring Andaman islands.)