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Dancing with the river : people and life on the chars of South Asia /
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 metapho...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[2013]
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| Colección: | Yale agrarian studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xx, 272 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-262) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0300189575 9780300189575 1299599931 9781299599932 |