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- Author: Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt
- Publisher: Yale University Press
- ISBN-10: 0300188307
- ISBN-13: 9780300188301
- Format: 16.5 x 23.9 x 2.8 cm, hardcover
- Language: English
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An intimate glimpse into the microcosmic world of "hybrid landscapes" and their inhabitants
With this book Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt and Gopa Samanta offer 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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- Author: Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt
- Publisher: Yale University Press
- ISBN-10: 0300188307
- ISBN-13: 9780300188301
- Format: 16.5 x 23.9 x 2.8 cm, hardcover
- Language: English English
An intimate glimpse into the microcosmic world of "hybrid landscapes" and their inhabitants
With this book Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt and Gopa Samanta offer 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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