Dancing with the River
People and Life on the Chars of South Asia
Inbunden, Engelska, 2013
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Fri frakt för medlemmar vid köp för minst 249 kr.An intimate glimpse into the microcosmic world of “hybrid landscapes” and their inhabitantsWith 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.
Produktinformation
- Utgivningsdatum2013-06-07
- Mått156 x 235 x 25 mm
- Vikt567 g
- FormatInbunden
- SpråkEngelska
- SerieYale Agrarian Studies Series
- Antal sidor296
- FörlagYale University Press
- ISBN9780300188301