Naveeda Khan

River Life and the Upspring of Nature

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Produktbeschreibung

Naveeda Khan examines the relationship between nature and culture through the study of the everyday existence of chaurasâ the people who live on sandbars within the Jamuna River in Bangladeshâ to show how nature configures daily life.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Februar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 380g
• ISBN-13: 9781478019398
• ISBN-10: 1478019395
• Artikelnr.: 64201807

Autorenporträt

Naveeda Khan is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University, author of Muslim Becoming: Aspiration and Skepticism in Pakistan, also published by Duke University Press, and In Quest of a Shared Planet: Negotiating Climate from the Global South, and editor of Beyond Crisis: Re-evaluating Pakistan.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Maps  ix
Preface  xi
Acknowledgments  xiii
Introduction. River Life and Death  1
1. Moving Lands in the Skein of Property and Kin Relations  28
2. History and Morality between Floods and Erosion  59
3. Elections on Sandbars and the Remembered Village  94
4. Decay of the River and of Memory  131
5. Death of Children and the Eruption of Myths  160
Epilogue. The Chars in Recent Years  191
Notes  197
References  215
Index  229