(DOWNLOAD) "Dancing with the River" by Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt & Gopa Samanta # Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Dancing with the River
- Author : Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt & Gopa Samanta
- Release Date : January 25, 2013
- Genre: Nature,Books,Science & Nature,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 3207 KB
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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.