- Yale University Press
Dancing with the River: People and Life on the Chars of South Asia
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- Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt
- Yale University Press
- Hardcover
- 9780300188301
- 9.4 X 6.5 X 1.1 inches
- 1.25 pounds
- Technology & Engineering > Agriculture - Agronomy - Crop Science
- English
Book Description
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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