The Invention of Rivers (Record no. 62587)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780812249996
028 ## - DISTRIBUTOR NAME
Distributor Name : Technical Bureau India Pvt. Ltd.
Distributor address : 4794/23, 1st Floor, Opp.-Eye7, Ansari Road, New Delhi
Bill Number : TB2731
Bill Date : 26/11/2024
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 915.409 CUN
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Cunha, Dilip da.
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title The Invention of Rivers
Remainder of title : Alexander's Eye and Ganga's Descent.
Statement of responsibility, etc / Dilip da. Cunha.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc Philadelphia
Name of publisher, distributor, etc : University of Pennsylvania Press,
Date of publication, distribution, etc , 2018.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xii, 338p.
Dimensions : 24cm.
365 ## - TRADE PRICE
Price amount 6104
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc Dilip da Cunha integrates history, art, cultural studies, hydrology, and geography to tell the story of how rivers have been culturally constructed as lines granted a special role in defining human habitation and everyday practice. What we take to be natural features of the earth's surface, according to da Cunha, are products of human design and a particular way of seeing that has roots stretching as far back as ancient Greek cartography. Although Alexander the Great never saw the Ganges, he conceived of it as a flowing body of water, with sources, destinations, and banks that marked the separation of land from water. This Alexandrine view of the river, da Cunha argues, has been pursued and adopted across time and around the world. With ever more sophisticated mappings of its form and characteristics, the river's essential features are refined and standardized: its source identified by a point; its course depicted as a stroke; and its propensity to flood imagined as the erasure of the boundary between water and land.<br/><br/>While da Cunha's vision of rivers is a global one, he takes an especially close look at the Ganges, as he traces the ways in which it has been pictured, mapped, surveyed, explored, and measured across the millennia. He argues that the articulation of the river Ganges has placed it at odds with Ganga, a "rain terrain" that does not conform to the line of separation, containment, and calibration that are the formalities of a river landscape. By calling rivers into question, da Cunha depicts an ecosystem that is neither land nor water but one of ubiquitous wetness in which rain is held in soil, aquifers, glaciers, snowfields, building materials, agricultural fields, air, and even plants and animals.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Rivers
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Historical geography
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Geography
700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Dilip da Cunha
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     SNU LIBRARY SNU LIBRARY 03/12/2024 Technical Bureau India Pvt. Ltd. 6104.00   915.409 CUN 30517 03/12/2024 03/12/2024 Books
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