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BL
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| Record Number
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877403
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| Main Entry
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Jalais, Annu.
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| Title & Author
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Forest of tigers : : people, politics and environment in the Sundarbans /\ Annu Jalais.
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| Publication Statement
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New Delhi ;Abingdon :: Routledge,, 2010.
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xvi, 245 pages :: illustrations, maps ;; 22 cm
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| ISBN
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0415544610
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: 9780415544610
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| Notes
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Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.).
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-240) and index.
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| Contents
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The village and the forest -- Land and its hierarchies -- Is salt thicker than blood? -- Roughing it with Kali : braving crocodiles, relatives and the bhadralok -- Sharing history with tigers -- Unmasking the cosmopolitan tiger -- Conclusion : beneath the masks, the human face of the Sundarbans.
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| Abstract
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"Acclaimed for its unique ecosystem and Royal Bengal tigers, the mangrove islands that comprise the Sundarbans area of the Bengal delta are the setting for this pioneering anthropological work. The key question that the author explores is: what do tigers mean for the islanders of the Sundarbans? The diverse origins and current occupations of the local population produce different answers to this question ' but for all, 'the tiger question' is a significant social marker. Far more than through caste, tribe or religion, the Sundarbans islanders articulate their social locations and interactions by reference to the non-human world ' the forest and its terrifying protagonist, the man-eating tiger.The book combines rich ethnography on a little-known region with contemporary theoretical insights to provide a new frame of reference to understand social relations in the Indian subcontinent."--Publisher.
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Bengal tiger-- India-- West Bengal-- Folklore.
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Ethnology-- India-- Dakshiṇa Cabbiśa Paragaṇā.
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Human ecology-- India-- Dakshiṇa Cabbiśa Paragaṇā.
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Human ecology-- Sundarbans (Bangladesh and India)
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Artenschutz
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Ethnologie
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Ethnology.
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Human ecology.
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Humanökologie
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Tiger
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Tiger.
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Asia, Sundarbans.
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India, Dakshiṇa Cabbiśa Paragaṇā
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India, West Bengal.
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Sundarbans
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| Dewey Classification
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954
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| LC Classification
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GF662.S86J35 2010
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| NLM classification
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RR 35915rvk
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