Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Maps ix
4. Preface xi
5. Acknowledgments xiii
6. Introduction. River Life and Death 1
7. 1. Moving Lands in the Skein of Property and Kin Relations 28
8. 2. History and Morality between Floods and Erosion 59
9. 3. Elections on Sandbars and the Remembered Village 94
10. 4. Decay of the River and of Memory 131
11. 5. Death of Children and the Eruption of Myths 160
12. Epilogue. The Chars in Recent Years 191
13. Notes 197
14. References 215
15. Index 229