Songs At the River's Edge
Stories From a Bangladeshi Village
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1997
Pluto Press (Verlag)
978-0-7453-1095-4 (ISBN)
Pluto Press (Verlag)
978-0-7453-1095-4 (ISBN)
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The author's account of her 18 months in a Bangladeshi village, living with the villagers, absorbing their life and culture.
Katy Gardner’s account of her fifteen-month stay in the small Bangladeshi village of Talukpur has become a classic study of rural life in South Asia.
Through a series of beautifully crafted narratives, the villagers and their stories are brought vividly to life and the author’s role as an outsider sensitively conveyed in her descriptions of the warm friendships she makes.
Above all Songs at the River's Edge is written from a deep respect of Bangladesh and its people.
Katy Gardner’s account of her fifteen-month stay in the small Bangladeshi village of Talukpur has become a classic study of rural life in South Asia.
Through a series of beautifully crafted narratives, the villagers and their stories are brought vividly to life and the author’s role as an outsider sensitively conveyed in her descriptions of the warm friendships she makes.
Above all Songs at the River's Edge is written from a deep respect of Bangladesh and its people.
Katy Gardner is Professor of Anthropology at the London School of Economics and the author of Global Migrants, Local Lives (Oxford University Press, 1995), Discordant Development (Pluto, 2012) and Anthropology and Development (Pluto, 2015).
Foreword
1. September Arrival
2. The Lives that Allah Gives
3. Hushnia gets married
4. A Woman's Place
5. The Lives that Allah Takes
6. Roukea buys a new Sari
7. Stories of the Spirits
8. Storms
9. Abdullah seeks a Cure
10. Alim Ullah goes to Saudi
11. Ambia's story
12. November departure
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 20.3.1997 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 135 x 215 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Asien | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-7453-1095-8 / 0745310958 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-7453-1095-4 / 9780745310954 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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