Engaging Environments in Tonga

Arne Aleksej Perminow is Associate Professor of Social Anthropology and keeper of the Oceania Collection at the Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo. He has curated several exhibitions including Startpaths across the Pacific: Narratives of Origin in Oceania and the Pacific part of Collapse: Human Being in an Unpredictable World (Museum of Cultural History, 2006 and 2018).

“The book is well-argued, clearly written, and a timely contribution to an important theme (socio-cultural aspects of environmental change, including climate change, in the Pacific). I have yet to see a monograph approach the theme with the same ethnographic depth as this book.” • Tom Bratrud, University of South-Eastern Norway

• List of FiguresAcknowledgementsIntroduction: An Environmental PuzzleChapter 1. Moving to the Beat of a Marine EnvironmentChapter 2. Daily Motions of Merging and SeparationChapter 3. Lunar Motions of Growth and RegenerationChapter 4. Creating Tableaux of Moving BeautyChapter 5. Nurturing Flows Between Hands That Let GoConclusion: Calamity, Sacrifice and Blessing in a Changing WorldAppendix: Words of a World in MotionGlossaryReferencesIndex