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100			_aDutt, Kuntala Lahiri
245			_aDancing With The River: people and life on the chars of South Asia
260			_aNew Haven _bYale University Press _c2013
300			_a272p.
520			_aWith 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.
650			_aSocial conditions
650			_aManners and customs
700			_aSamanta, Gopa
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