Dancing with the River: People and Life on the Chars of South Asia

by Gopa Samanta and Kuntala Lahiri-dutt

Book Overview

This ground-breaking book takes an intimate look at "hybrid environments" and the people who inhabit them, focusing on chars--the part-land, part-water, low-lying sandy masses that exist within the riverbeds in the floodplains of lower Bengal.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300188307
• ISBN13: 9780300188301
• Release Date: June 2013
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.4"