Dancing with the River
Kuntala Lahiri-DuttWith 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.
ప్రచురణకర్త:
Yale University Press
భాష:
english
ISBN 10:
0300189575
ISBN 13:
9780300189575
ఫైల్:
EPUB, 2.18 MB
IPFS:
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