TY  - GEN
T1  - Dancing with the river : people and life on the chars of South Asia
T2  - Yale agrarian studies.
A1  - Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala, 1956-
A2  - Samanta, Gopa
LA  - English
PP  - New Haven
PB  - Yale University Press
YR  - 2013
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocn849493504
AB  - This book offers 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.
OP  - 272
CN  - GF661 .L45 2013
SN  - 0300189575
SN  - 9780300189575
SN  - 1299599931
SN  - 9781299599932
SN  - 9780300188301
SN  - 0300188307
KW  - Human ecology : South Asia.
KW  - Human ecology : Ganges River Delta (Bangladesh and India)
KW  - River life : South Asia.
KW  - Human beings : Effect of environment on : South Asia.
KW  - South Asia : Rural conditions.
KW  - South Asia : Economic conditions.
KW  - South Asia : Social life and customs.
KW  - South Asia : Social conditions.
KW  - Écologie humaine : Asie méridionale.
KW  - Écologie humaine : Gange, Delta du (Bangladesh et Inde)
KW  - Vie fluviale : Asie méridionale.
KW  - Êtres humains : Influence de l'environnement : Asie méridionale.
KW  - Asie méridionale : Conditions rurales.
KW  - Asie méridionale : Conditions économiques.
KW  - Asie méridionale : Mœurs et coutumes.
KW  - Asie méridionale : Conditions sociales.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Human Geography.
KW  - TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING : Agriculture : Agronomy : Crop Science.
KW  - Economic history
KW  - Human beings : Effect of environment on
KW  - Human ecology
KW  - Manners and customs
KW  - River life
KW  - Rural conditions
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Asia : Ganges River Delta
KW  - South Asia
ER  -