Seeing South Asia : visuals beyond borders /
edited by Dev Nath Pathak, Biswajit Das and Ratan Kumar Roy.
- South Asia edition.
- 2023.
- xxiv, 295 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Reprint. Originally published: 2022. Contributed articles. "A Routledge India original"--Cover.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- List of contributors -- 1. Introduction: visuals in South Asia: the interface of seen and unseen / Vernacular visual: seeing in South Asia / Hermeneutic sensorium: positing a methodological dynamics of seen-unseen / Visual anthropology in Nepal: a critical trajectory of practices and a way forward / Myths, and the visual imagination: the "Duplicitous Maiden" as a narrative theme in Gond art / Transport art of Dhaka: where the invisible city becomes visible / Visual inscriptions upon landscapes of loss: memorialising Thileepan in Sri Lanka / Seeing the invisible: anthropological reflections on the representation of the Rabari community in Rajasthan / South Asian ways of seeing: towards a visual public sphere / Visual public in South Asia: seeing and showing in the digital sphere / Visibility of Sindhi progressive Sufism in the new media domain of Pakistan / Visual, visibility and memory: television in everyday life in Rajasthan / Collective making of press photographs: an ethnographic enquiry / The vulnerability of visual vocabulary on refugee representation: the voyage of Boatwo/men Rohingya / Visual matters: unpacking political communication and politics of the camera / Dev Nath Pathak, Ratan Kumar Roy and Biswajit Das Sadan Jha -- 3. Dev Nath Pathak -- 4. Fidel Devkota -- Roma Chatterji -- 6. Tabassum Zaman -- 7. Malathi de Alwis -- 8. Urmi Bhattacharyya Amrita Ajay -- 10. Ratan Kumar Roy and Ridhi Kakkar -- 11. M. Rafiqe Wassan -- 12. Biswajit Das -- Siddhi Bhandari -- 14. Dilpreet Bhullar -- 15. Farhat Basir Khan -- Index. Part I: Ways of seeing and showing -- 2. Part II: Approaches, representations and politics -- 5. Part III: Seeing public and mediation -- 9. Part IV: Image-making and manufacturing meanings -- 13.