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In the forest : visual and material worlds of Andamanese history (1858-2006) / Vishvajit Pandya.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Pandya, Vishvajit.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Andamanese (Indic people)--Social life and customs.
Andamanese (Indic people).
Jarawa (Indic people)--Social life and customs.
Jarawa (Indic people).
Onge (Indic people)--Social life and customs.
Onge (Indic people).
Andaman and Nicobar Islands (India)--Social life and customs.
Andaman and Nicobar Islands (India).
Physical Description:
1 online resource (438 p.)
Place of Publication:
Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, c2009.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
This extraordinary book brings long years of ethnographic engagement with the Ongee and the Jarawa, otherwise known as the Andaman Islanders, to render an intimate history of their contact with traders, colonialists, global tourists and the developmental state. -Veena Das
Contents:
Contents; Acknowledgment; Chapter 01. Introduction; Part I. VISUALITY; Chapter 02. The Past Imagined in the Dugong Elegies; Chapter 03. The Documentation of the Andamanese: From Photography to Ethnography; PART II. MATERIALITY; Chapter 04. Things in Time: Carriers of Continuity and Change; Chapter 05. Materiality Mapped; Part III. HISTORY; Chapter 06. Signifying Practices: he "Violent" Other; Chapter 07. Images and Imaginations: Modernist Encounters; PART IV. CONCLUSION AND BEYOND; Chapter 08. Towards a Political Economy of Visualized Material
Chapter 09. The Specter of "Hostility": The Sentinelese betweenT ext and ImageAppendix A. Tools As Part of Culture and History; Appendix B. Smoking Pipes As Part of Contact History and Culture; Appendix C. Body Adornments As Markers of Contact Relations and Culture; Appendix D. Maps; Abbreviations; Glossary; Bibliography; Index
Notes:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 399-420) and index.
ISBN:
1-282-49847-9
9786612498473
0-7618-4272-1
OCLC:
371672686

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