Oral Traditions or Situated Practices? Understanding How Indigenous Communities Respond to Environmental Disasters

摘要: This article examines how indigenous fisherfolk of the western Solomon Islands survived a magnitude 8.1 earthquake and subsequent tsunami that struck region in 2007. I reconstruct this cataclysmic event through local narratives, surveys, ethnographic interviews collected villages on Simbo Island Roviana Vonavona Lagoons. then compare responses Islanders to reports analyses similar survivor stories among groups affected by 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. Results show disaster tend relate effective with intergenerationally transmitted oral histories or culturally embedded myths. These codified bodies traditional knowledge mental models about previous events are thought be put into action when strikes. However, surveys conducted suggest history was just one dimension response involved an assemblage global knowledges coalescing performative experiential practices. To more thoroughly conceptualize responses, encourage practice-based approach. argue framework provides productive inclusive analysis relationship between environmental hazards, while also facilitating collaborations people experts who seek participatory strategies risk reduction.