{"product_id":"dancing-with-the-river-people-and-life-on-the-chars-of-south-asia-yale-agrarian-studies-series-0300188307","title":"Dancing with the River: People and Life on the Chars of South Asia (Yale Agrarian Studies Series)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0300188307\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn intimate glimpse into the microcosmic world of hybrid landscapes and their inhabitantsWith 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51735995679008,"sku":"NEW0300188307","price":56.42,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/71YEgd_l3lL.jpg?v=1779501873","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/dancing-with-the-river-people-and-life-on-the-chars-of-south-asia-yale-agrarian-studies-series-0300188307","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}