| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 272 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
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text file |
| Series |
Yale agrarian studies series
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Yale agrarian studies.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-262) and index. |
| 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. |
| Contents |
""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""List of Abbreviations""; ""CHAPTER 1. Introducing Chars: Where Lands Float on Water""; ""CHAPTER 2. Char Jage: A Char Rises""; ""CHAPTER 3. Controlling the River to Free Up Land""; ""CHAPTER 4. Bhitar o Bahir Katha: Inside and Outside Stories of Chars and the Mainland""; ""CHAPTER 5. Silent Footfalls: Peopling the Chars""; ""CHAPTER 6. Living with Risk: Beyond Vulnerability/Security""; ""CHAPTER 7. Livelihoods Defined by Water: Nadir Sathe Baas""; ""CHAPTER 8. Living on Chars, Drifting with Rivers"" |
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""Appendix: Full Census Data for Surveyed Chars""""Notes""; ""Glossary""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""Z""; ""References""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z"" |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Human ecology -- South Asia.
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Human ecology. |
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South Asia. |
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Human ecology -- Ganges River Delta (Bangladesh and India)
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River life -- South Asia.
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River life. |
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Human beings -- Effect of environment on -- South Asia.
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Human beings -- Effect of environment on. |
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South Asia -- Rural conditions.
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Rural conditions. |
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South Asia -- Economic conditions.
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Economic conditions. |
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South Asia -- Social life and customs.
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Manners and customs. |
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South Asia -- Social conditions.
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Social conditions. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Samanta, Gopa.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9780300188301 0300188307 (DLC) 2012041242 |
| ISBN |
0300189575 (electronic book) |
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9780300189575 (electronic book) |
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1299599931 (electronic book) |
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9781299599932 (electronic book) |
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9780300188301 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0300188307 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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