Dancing with the River: People and Life on the Chars of South Asia
Author:   Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt (Australian National University, Australia)
Publisher:   Yale University Press
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9781299599932


Pages:   297
Publication Date:   01 January 2013
Format:   Electronic book text
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Dancing with the River: People and Life on the Chars of South Asia


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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.

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Author:   Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt (Australian National University, Australia)
Publisher:   Yale University Press
Imprint:   Yale University Press
ISBN:  

9781299599932


ISBN 10:   1299599931
Pages:   297
Publication Date:   01 January 2013
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Electronic book text
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available To Order   Availability explained
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