Dancing with the River

People and Life on the Chars of South Asia

von Gopa Samanta, Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt

298 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Reihe: YALE UNIV PR
• ISBN: 9780300188301
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 25.06.2013
• Größe: 234 x 156 mm
• Verlag: Yale University Press