Seeing South Asia: Visuals Beyond Borders

ISBN-13: 9781032233192 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 226 str.

Dev Nath Pathak; Biswajit Das; Ratan Kumar Roy

Opis

This book critically examines the cultural politics of visuals in South Asia. It discusses themes such as the vernacular visual and ways of seeing; photography and anthropology; refugee representation; and television news practices to explore modernity and tradition, fluidity and hybridity, and political economic and performative politics.

Spis treści

1. Introduction – Visuals in South Asia: The Interface of Seen and Unseen  Part I: Ways of Seeing and Showing  2. Vernacular Visual: Seeing in South Asia  3. Hermeneutic Sensorium: Positing a Methodological Dynamics of Seen-Unseen  4. Visual Anthropology in Nepal: A Critical Trajectory of Practices and a Way Forward  Part II: Approaches, Representations and Politics  5. Myths, and the Visual Imagination: The ‘Duplicitous Maiden’ as a Narrative Theme in Gond Art  6. Transport Art of Dhaka: Where the Invisible City Becomes Visible  7. Visual Inscriptions upon Landscapes of Loss: Memorialising Thileepan in Sri Lanka  8. Seeing the Invisible: Anthropological Reflections on the Representation of the Rabari Community in Rajasthan  Part III: Seeing Public and Mediation  9. South Asian Ways of Seeing: Towards a Visual Public Sphere  10. Visual Public in South Asia: Seeing and Showing in the Digital Sphere  11. Visibility of Sindhi Progressive Sufism in the New Media Domain of Pakistan  12. Visual, Visibility and Memory: Television in Everyday Life in Rajasthan  Part IV: Image-Making and Manufacturing Meanings  13. Collective Making of Press Photographs: An Ethnographic Enquiry  14. The Vulnerability of Visual Vocabulary on Refugee Representation: The Voyage of Boatwo/men Rohingya  15. Visual Matters: Unpacking Political Communication and Politics of the Camera