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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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Human ecology, River life, Human beings, effect of environment on, Asia, rural conditions, Asia, economic conditions, Asia, social life and customs, Asia, social conditions, Social life and customs, Effect of environment on, Economic conditions, Social conditions, Human beings, Rural conditions, South asia, economic conditions, South asia, social conditions, Economic history, Manners and customs, Social historyShowing 3 featured editions. View all 3 editions?
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Dancing with the River: People and Life on the Chars of South Asia
2013, Yale University Press
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Dancing with the River: People and Life on the Chars of South Asia
2013, Yale University Press
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Dancing with the River: People and Life on the Chars of South Asia
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