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Dancing with the River : People and Life on the Chars of South Asia / Gopa Samanta, Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala, Author.
- Samanta, Gopa, Author.
- Series:
- Yale agrarian studies series.
- Yale Agrarian Studies Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human beings--Effect of environment on--South Asia.
- Human beings.
- Human ecology--South Asia.
- Human ecology.
- River life--South Asia.
- River life.
- South Asia--Economic conditions.
- South Asia.
- South Asia--Rural conditions.
- South Asia--Social conditions.
- South Asia--Social life and customs.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (297 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2013]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Front matter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Chapter 1. Introducing Chars
- Chapter 2. Char Jage
- Chapter 3. Controlling the River to Free Up Land
- Chapter 4. Bhitar o Bahir Katha
- Chapter 5. Silent Footfalls
- Chapter 6. Living with Risk
- Chapter 7. Livelihoods Defined by Water
- Chapter 8. Living on Chars, Drifting with Rivers
- Appendix
- Notes
- Glossary
- References
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)
- ISBN:
- 0-300-18957-5
- 0-300-18830-7
- OCLC:
- 849493504
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