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020			_a9781478019398 _q(paperback)
020			_a9781478016731 _q(hardcover)
020			_a9781478024002 _q(ebook)
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050	0	0	_aGF696.B3 _bK436 2023
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100	1		_aKhan, Naveeda Ahmed, _d1969- _eauthor. _949031
245	1	0	_aRiver life and the upspring of nature / _cNaveeda Khan.
260			_aDurham : _bDuke University Press, _c2023.
300			_axvii, 233 pages : _billustrations ; _c23 cm
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aRiver 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.
520			_a"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"--
526			_aESS
650		0	_aHuman ecology _zBangladesh _zJamuna River. _955783
650		0	_aRural poor _zBangladesh _zJamuna River. _955784
650		0	_aSand bars _zBangladesh _zJamuna River. _955785
650		0	_aRiver settlements _zBangladesh _zJamuna River. _955786
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