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Dancing with the River - People and Life on the Chars of South Asia (Hardcover) Loot Price: R2,239
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Dancing with the River - People and Life on the Chars of South Asia (Hardcover): Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt, Gopa Samanta

Dancing with the River - People and Life on the Chars of South Asia (Hardcover)

Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt, Gopa Samanta

Series: Yale Agrarian Studies Series

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An intimate glimpse into the microcosmic world of "hybrid landscapes" and their inhabitants With 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.

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Imprint: Yale University Press
Country of origin: United States
Series: Yale Agrarian Studies Series
Release date: May 2013
First published: June 2013
Authors: Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt • Gopa Samanta
Dimensions: 235 x 156 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 978-0-300-18830-1
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General
Books > Earth & environment > Geography > Human geography > General
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LSN: 0-300-18830-7
Barcode: 9780300188301

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