{"product_id":"9780300189575","title":"Dancing with the River: People and Life on the Chars of South Asia","description":"With this book Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt and Gopa Samanta offer an intimate glimpse into the microcosmic world of “hybrid landscapes.” Focusing on chars—the part-land, part-water, low-lying sandy masses that exist within the riverbeds in the floodplains of lower Bengal—the authors show how, both as real-life examples and as metaphors, chars straddle the conventional categories of land and water, and how people who live on them fluctuate between legitimacy and illegitimacy. The result, a study of human habitation in the nebulous space between land and water, charts a new way of thinking about land, people, and people's ways of life.","brand":"Yale University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47068860678384,"sku":"9780300189575","price":65.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780300189575_p0.jpg?v=1763670276","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780300189575","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}