<p>Water is life in Bangladesh. Based on five researchers long-term involvement with water development programs in eight districts, this book introduces the reader to the vast range of meanings that water has in this South Asian country, where ordinary villagers struggle daily for access to safe supplies. Mythology, ancient sciences, folklore, and language provide a rich cultural foundation sustaining villagers water-related beliefs and domestic practices. Large numbers of people in the study area face the daunting challenge of arsenic in their water supply. Reactions to this serious problem are explored through case studies and insights based on the authors many years of field experience. This book will help to sensitize scientifically oriented development workers to the ways that that cultural frameworks influence people s understandings and uses of new ideas and technologies. Focusing on WASH (water, sanitation, and hygiene) strategies, domestic supply issues, and people s ideas about water s qualities and powers, the authors introduce new ways to engage with the social and cultural context of a development project.</p>

Water Culture in South Asia: Bangladesh Perspectives

Business & Money

Hanchett, Suzanne

Monju, Tofazzel Hossain

Akhter, Kazi Rozana

Akhter, Shireen

Islam, Anwar

Management & Leadership

Development Resources Press

<p>Coloured Rice is an ethnographic study of rituals conducted by multiple castes in two Karnataka villages, and accompanying myths. Patrilineal family life and the position of women are central themes. Rituals described and analysed are for benign goddesses helping married women, for restless and dangerous goddesses threatening whole families, ancestor propitiation rites, and ant-hill festivals for a cobra deity. Forty-five colour photos have been added to the original text.</p>

Coloured Rice: Symbolic Structure in Hindu Family Festivals (second edition)

Politics & Social Sciences

Regelson, Stanley

Anthropology

Coloured Rice: Symbolic Structure in Hindu Family Festivals

Social Sciences

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