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Loading... Dancing with the River: People and Life on the Chars of South Asia (Yale Agrarian Studies Series)by Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt
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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. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)304.2095414Social sciences Social Sciences; Sociology and anthropology Factors affecting social behavior Human ecologyLC ClassificationRatingAverage: No ratings.Is this you?Become a LibraryThing Author. |