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Dancing with the River: People and Life on the Chars of South Asia
By (author) Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt, By (author) Gopa Samanta
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An intimate glimpse into the microcosmic world of “hybrid landscapes†and their inhabitants With this book Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt and Gopa Samanta offer 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.
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Publisher | Yale University Press
Published date | 7 Jun 2013
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Format | Hardback
Pages | 296
Dimensions | 235 x 156 x 25mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 567g
ISBN | 978-0-3001-8830-1
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BISAC | social science / anthropology / general
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