Dancing with the River: People and Life on the Chars of South Asia
Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt, Gopa Samanta
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 Bengalthe 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.
年:
2013
出版社:
Yale University Press
语言:
english
页:
288
ISBN 10:
0300189575
ISBN 13:
9780300189575
文件:
PDF, 2.01 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2013
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