Dancing with the river :: people and life on the chars of South Asia /

This book offers an intimate glimpse into the microcosmic world of 'hybrid environments.' Focusing on chars--the part-land, part-water, low-lying sandy masses that exist within the riverbeds in the floodplains of lower Bengal--the authors show how, both as real-life examples and as metapho...

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1. Verfasser: Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala, 1956-
Weitere Verfasser: Samanta, Gopa
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2013]
Schriftenreihe:Yale agrarian studies.
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Zusammenfassung:This book offers an intimate glimpse into the microcosmic world of 'hybrid environments.' Focusing on chars--the part-land, part-water, low-lying sandy masses that exist within the riverbeds in the floodplains of lower Bengal--the authors show how, both as real-life examples and as metaphors, chars straddle the conventional categories of land and water, and how people who live on them fluctuate between legitimacy and illegitimacy. The result, a study of human habitation in the nebulous space between land and water, charts a new way of thinking about land, people, and people's ways of life.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xx, 272 pages) : illustrations, maps
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-262) and index.
ISBN:0300189575
9780300189575
1299599931
9781299599932

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