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Dancing with the River : People and Life on the Chars of South Asia / / Gopa Samanta, Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt



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Autore: Lahiri-Dutt Kuntala Visualizza persona
Titolo: Dancing with the River : People and Life on the Chars of South Asia / / Gopa Samanta, Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New Haven, CT : , : Yale University Press, , [2013]
©2013
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (297 p.)
Disciplina: 304.2095414
Soggetto topico: Human beings - Effect of environment on - South Asia
Human ecology - South Asia
River life - South Asia
Soggetto geografico: South Asia Economic conditions
South Asia Rural conditions
South Asia Social conditions
South Asia Social life and customs
Persona (resp. second.): SamantaGopa
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1. Introducing Chars -- Chapter 2. Char Jage -- Chapter 3. Controlling the River to Free Up Land -- Chapter 4. Bhitar o Bahir Katha -- Chapter 5. Silent Footfalls -- Chapter 6. Living with Risk -- Chapter 7. Livelihoods Defined by Water -- Chapter 8. Living on Chars, Drifting with Rivers -- Appendix -- Notes -- Glossary -- References -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Dancing with the River  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-300-18957-5
0-300-18830-7
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910786872203321
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Serie: Yale agrarian studies series.