Khan, Naveeda Ahmed 1969- creator author. text bibliography ncu Durham Duke University Press 2023 monographic eng

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xvii, 233 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm "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"-- 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. Naveeda Khan. Includes bibliographical references and index. ESS a-bg--- Human ecology Bangladesh Jamuna River Rural poor Bangladesh Jamuna River Sand bars Bangladesh Jamuna River River settlements Bangladesh Jamuna River GF696.B3 K436 2023 304.2086095492 9781478019398 9781478016731 9781478024002 2022029323 NcD/DLC 231107 20251124145451.0 41960 eng