Songs At the River's Edge

Stories From a Bangladeshi Village

Katy Gardner (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

160 Seiten

1997
Pluto Press (Verlag)
978-0-7453-1094-7 (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 country.

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
Gewicht	230 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Asien
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	0-7453-1094-X / 074531094X
ISBN-13	978-0-7453-1094-7 / 9780745310947
Zustand	Neuware