JOURNAL ARTICLE

Misreading the Bengal Delta: Climate Change, Development, and Livelihoods in Coastal Bangladesh.

  • Published In: American Anthropologist, 2023, v. 125, n. 2. P. 457 1 of 3

  • Database: Academic Search Ultimate 2 of 3

  • Authored By: Helmreich, Stefan 3 of 3

Abstract

Back in the 1960s, the Dutch landscape form known as a polder - "a piece of low-lying land reclaimed from the sea" and often enclosed by embankments - was introduced to Bangladesh by the World Bank-funded Coastal Embankment Project both to control floods and to manage irrigation. In I The Hungry Tide i , Amitav Ghosh's ([1]) novel of the Bay of Bengal, where the Ganges, Brahmaputra, and Meghna rivers meet, a key character meditates on the multiple stories any landscape tells. [Extracted from the article]

Additional Information

  • Source:American Anthropologist. 2023/06, Vol. 125, Issue 2, p457
  • Document Type:Article
  • Subject Area:Law
  • Publication Date:2023
  • ISSN:0002-7294
  • DOI:10.1111/aman.13806
  • Accession Number:163588709
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