Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt
Gopa Samanta
https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt32brxr
Book Description:
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.
eISBN: 978-0-300-18957-5
Subjects: Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Technology, Sociology