Naveeda Khan

River Life and the Upspring of Nature

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Examines the relationship between nature and culture through the study of the everyday existence of chaurasâ the people who live on sandbars within the Jamuna River in Bangladeshâ to show how nature configures daily life. Khan shows how nature can both give rise to and inhabit social, political, and spiritual forms of life.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Februar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 382g
• ISBN-13: 9781478019398
• ISBN-10: 1478019395
• Artikelnr.: 64201807

Autorenporträt

Naveeda Khan

Inhaltsangabe

List of Maps  ix
Preface  xi
Acknowledgments  xiii
Introduction. River Life and Death  1
1. Moving Lands in the Skein of Property and Kin Relations  28
2. History and Morality between Floods and Erosion  59
3. Elections on Sandbars and the Remembered Village  94
4. Decay of the River and of Memory  131
5. Death of Children and the Eruption of Myths  160
Epilogue. The Chars in Recent Years  191
Notes  197
References  215
Index  229