The Golden Wave

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The Golden Wave is written by Michele Ruth Gamburd and published by Indiana University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0253011507 (ISBN 10) and 9780253011503 (ISBN 13).

In December 2004 the Indian Ocean tsunami devastated coastal regions of Sri Lanka. Six months later, Michele Ruth Gamburd returned to the village where she had been conducting research for many years and began collecting residents' stories of the disaster and its aftermath: the chaos and loss of the flood itself; the sense of community and leveling of social distinctions as people worked together to recover and regroup; and the local and national politics of foreign aid as the country began to rebuild. In The Golden Wave, Gamburd describes how the catastrophe changed social identities, economic dynamics, and political structures.