TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hatzfeld,Marc
TI  - The poetics of land: a personal journey through the stories, ideas and images of land and people in Bengal, from Vedic times to Nandigram 
SN  - 9781900355841 (pbk.) 
AV  - E78.B9 E47 2013
U1  - 304.23095414 HAT 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Black Apollo Press, 
KW  - Human territoriality
KW  - India
KW  - West Bengal
KW  - Land use
KW  - Oral tradition
KW  - Literature and society
KW  - West Bengal (India)
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Civilization
KW  - Economic conditions
N2  - "The Poetics of Land and Identity is about the meaning of land for the many diverse First Nations within British Columbia. The work offers a study of the folklore and symbolic traditions within many Aboriginal regions and illustrates how these traditions emphasize the importance of orality and poetics as the defining factor in the value of land. Christine J. Elsey offers a deft, scholarly discussion of these "storyscapes," providing us with a point of access for understanding First Nations' perspectives on the world and their land. She provides an important alternative to the monetary, exploitative, resource-driven view of nature and land ownership and highlights the conflicts between the colonial, Western perspective of nature and the holistic view of First Nations people."--Publisher's website
ER  -