Dancing with the River People and Life on the Chars of South Asia
With this book Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt and Gopa Samanta offer an intimate glimpse into the microcosmic world of "hybrid landscapes." 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...
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| Médium: | E-kniha Kniha |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
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New Haven
Yale University Press
25.06.2013
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| Vydání: | 1 |
| Edice: | Yale Agrarian Studies Series |
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| ISBN: | 9780300188301, 0300188307 |
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| Shrnutí: | With this book Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt and Gopa Samanta offer an intimate glimpse into the microcosmic world of "hybrid landscapes." 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. |
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| Bibliografie: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-262) and index |
| ISBN: | 9780300188301 0300188307 |
| DOI: | 10.12987/9780300189575 |