River life and the upspring of nature / Naveeda Khan.
| Author/creator | Khan, Naveeda Ahmed, 1969- author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Durham : Duke University Press, 2023. |
| Copyright Date | cu2023 |
| Description | xvii, 233 pages : maps ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | River Life and Death -- Moving Lands in the Skein of Property and Kin Relations -- History and Morality between Floods and Erosion -- Elections on Sandbars and the Remembered Village -- Decay of the River and of Memory -- Death of Children and the Eruption of Myths -- The Chars in Recent Years. |
| Abstract | "Naveeda Khan's River Life and the Uprising of Nature refigures the relationship between nature and culture through the study of chauras, or people who live on the chars (sandbars) within the Jamuna River in Bangladesh. Based on fieldwork largely conducted between 2011 and 2015, the book explores how nature acts a dynamic force that creates culture and impacts the human mind, body, and desire. The ethnography shows how alluvial flood plains give rise to certain social, political, spiritual, and familiar forms of life and reveals how nature inhabits humans and their prospects for social life. Khan argues that chaura lives are configured by nature and that nature makes persons and cultures in this place"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Khan, Naveeda Ahmed, 1969- River life and the upspring of nature Durham : Duke University Press, 2023 9781478024002 |
| LCCN | 2022029323 |
| ISBN | 9781478019398 |
| ISBN | 1478019395 paperback |
| ISBN | 9781478016731 hardcover |
| ISBN | 1478016736 hardcover |
| ISBN | electronic book |
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