Dancing with the River

People and Life on the Chars of South Asia

Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Sociology, Rural, Science & Nature, Technology, Agriculture & Animal Husbandry, Nature
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Author: Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt, Gopa Samanta ISBN: 9780300189575
Publisher: Yale University Press Publication: June 25, 2013
Imprint: Yale University Press Language: English
Author: Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt, Gopa Samanta
ISBN: 9780300189575
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication: June 25, 2013
Imprint: Yale University Press
Language: English
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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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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