Khan River Life and the Upspring of Nature

1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-4780-2400-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten

Naveeda Khan examines the relationship between nature and culture through the study of the everyday existence of chauras—the people who live on sandbars within the Jamuna River in Bangladesh—to show how nature configures daily life.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Khan, Naveeda

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Limnologie (Süßwasser)
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Sachbuch, Reise
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Naveeda Khan is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University, author of Muslim Becoming: Aspiration and Skepticism in Pakistan, also published by Duke University Press, and In Quest of a Shared Planet: Negotiating Climate from the Global South, and editor of Beyond Crisis: Re-evaluating Pakistan.