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100 1  Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala, |eauthor. |4aut |4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
245 10 Dancing with the River : |bPeople and Life on the Chars of South Asia / |cGopa Samanta, Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt.
250    1st ed.
264  1 New Haven, CT : |bYale University Press, |c[2013]
264  4  |c©2013
300    1 online resource (297 p.)
336    text |btxt
337    computer |bc
338    online resource |bcr
490 0  Yale Agrarian Studies Series
500    Description based upon print version of record.
546    English
504    Includes bibliographical references and index.
505 00  |tFront matter -- |tContents -- |tPreface -- |tAcknowledgments -- |tAbbreviations -- |tChapter 1. Introducing Chars -- |tChapter 2. Char Jage -- |tChapter 3. Controlling the River to Free Up Land -- |tChapter 4. Bhitar o Bahir Katha -- |tChapter 5. Silent Footfalls -- |tChapter 6. Living with Risk -- |tChapter 7. Livelihoods Defined by Water -- |tChapter 8. Living on Chars, Drifting with Rivers -- |tAppendix -- |tNotes -- |tGlossary -- |tReferences -- |tIndex
520    With 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.
588 0  Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)
650  0 Human beings |xEffect of environment on |zSouth Asia.
650  0 Human ecology |zSouth Asia.
650  0 River life |zSouth Asia.
651  0 South Asia |xEconomic conditions.
651  0 South Asia |xRural conditions.
651  0 South Asia |xSocial conditions.
651  0 South Asia |xSocial life and customs.
700 1  Samanta, Gopa, |eauthor. |4aut |4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
830  0 Yale agrarian studies series.
906    BOOK