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046066
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New Yoek, Springer, 2002.
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xxvi, 484p.
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3540433031
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ID:
188748
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This study examines the flood songs of Malabar written as performative literary texts in the Arabi-Malayalam language that were prevalent among the Muslim community of Malabar in the twentieth century. These songs were written as eyewitness accounts of the historical monsoon floods that afflicted the coastal regions and hinterlands of Malabar on the shores of the western Indian Ocean. Flood songs as a genre offer a combined understanding of ecology, religion and performance of the recurrent floods that occurred in twentieth-century Malabar. They also provide details about the importance of collective memorialisation and the commemoration strategies adopted to record the seasonal disastrous floods which still afflict the region. This paper puts forth two fundamental questions regarding flood songs: first, how did flood songs ideologically define and internalise the origins and causes of environmental disasters in an oceanic-riverine complex? Second, how did these songs aesthetically express the religious experience of the flood, adaptations to them, and ways of managing the risks they imposed? This study investigates the unique manifestations of spirituality, music/sound and nature and the environment in the flood songs of Malabar, topics which remain unexplored in academic literature.
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ID:
148003
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Energy security means that we ensure that there is enough energy left for us to harness for the survival of our species into the future. There are debates about the limits of human technological possibilities. There are people who are prone to arguing that humans do have the technological possibilities to counter the effects of climate change and environmental degradation; yet the spate of environmental disasters the world has been facing in the present does not provide such as assurance.
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ID:
083189
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London, I B Tauris, 2008.
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Description |
viii, 239p.
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9781845110550
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