Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt, Gopa Samanta

Dancing with the River (eBook, PDF)

People and Life on the Chars of South Asia

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Yale University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juni 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780300189575
• Artikelnr.: 61786645