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
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| Titolo: |
Dancing with the River : People and Life on the Chars of South Asia / / Gopa Samanta, Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt
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| 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 |
| ISBN: | 0-300-18957-5 |
| 0-300-18830-7 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910786872203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Yale agrarian studies series.