Seeing South Asia : visuals beyond borders / edited by Dev Nath Pathak, Biswajit Das and Ratan Kumar Roy.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pathak, Dev Nath, editor.

Das, Biswajit, editor.

Roy, Ratan Kumar, editor.

Taylor & Francis eBooks.

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

South Asia--Description and travel.

South Asia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 226 pages)

polychrome

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Routledge, 2022.

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

Dev Nath Pathak is a founding faculty member of sociology at South Asian University, New Delhi, India. Biswajit Das is Professor and Founding Director of the Centre for Culture, Media & Governance, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India. Ratan Kumar Roy was Research Fellow at the Centre for Culture, Media & Governance, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India and is currently Coordinator of International Research Center, SIMEC Institute of Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Contents:

1. Introduction

Visuals in South Asia: The Interface of Seen and UnseenDev Nath Pathak, Ratan Kumar Roy and Biswajit DasPart I: Ways of Seeing and Showing2. Vernacular Visual: Seeing in South AsiaSadan Jha3. Hermeneutic Sensorium: Positing a Methodological Dynamics of Seen-UnseenDev Nath Pathak4. Visual Anthropology in Nepal: A Critical Trajectory of Practices and a Way ForwardFidel DevkotaPart II: Approaches, Representations and Politics 5. Myths, and the Visual Imagination: The 'Duplicitous Maiden' as a Narrative Theme in Gond ArtRoma Chatterji6. Transport Art of Dhaka: Where the Invisible City Becomes VisibleTabassum Zaman7. Visual Inscriptions upon Landscapes of Loss: Memorialising Thileepan in Sri LankaMalathi de Alwis8. Seeing the Invisible: Anthropological Reflections on the Representation of the Rabari Community in RajasthanUrmi BhattacharyyaPart III: Seeing Public and Mediation9. South Asian Ways of Seeing: Towards a Visual Public SphereAmrita Ajay10. Visual Public in South Asia: Seeing and Showing in the Digital SphereRatan Kumar Roy and Ridhi Kakkar11. Visibility of Sindhi Progressive Sufism inthe New Media Domain of PakistanM. Rafiqe Wassan12. Visual, Visibility and Memory: Television in Everyday Life in RajasthanBiswajit DasPart IV: Image-Making and Manufacturing Meanings 13. Collective Making of Press Photographs: An Ethnographic EnquirySiddhi Bhandari14. The Vulnerability of Visual Vocabulary on Refugee Representation: The Voyage of Boatwo/men RohingyaDilpreet Bhullar15. Visual Matters: Unpacking Political Communication and Politics of the CameraFarhat Basir Khan

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

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Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781003276753

100327675X

9781000563627

1000563626

9781000563573

100056357X

Publisher Number:

99990739907

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