| Description |
xx, 272 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
| Series |
Yale agrarian studies series |
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Yale agrarian studies.
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| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Introducing Chars: Where Lands Float on Water -- ch. 2 Charjage: A Char Rises -- ch. 3 Controlling the River to Free Up Land -- ch. 4 Bhitaro Bahir Katha: Inside and Outside Stories of Chars and the Mainland -- ch. 5 Silent Footfalls: Peopling the Chars -- ch. 6 Living with Risk: Beyond Vulnerability/Security -- ch. 7 Livelihoods Defined by Water: Nadir Sathe Baas -- ch. 8 Living on Chars, Drifting with Rivers |
| Summary |
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 |
| Analysis |
Australian |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-262) and index |
| Subject |
Human beings -- Effect of environment on -- South Asia.
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Human ecology -- Ganges River Delta (Bangladesh and India)
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Human ecology -- South Asia.
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River life -- South Asia.
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| SUBJECT |
South Asia -- Economic conditions.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008117019
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South Asia http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125541 -- Rural conditions.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00007670
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South Asia http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125541 -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001008850
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South Asia http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125541 -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001008851
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| Author |
Samanta, Gopa.
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| LC no. |
2012041242 |
| ISBN |
0300188307 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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9780300188301 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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