TY - BOOK AU - Pathak,Dev Nath AU - Das,Biswajit AU - Roy,Ratan Kumar TI - Seeing South Asia: visuals beyond borders SN - 9781032425320 U1 - 915.40452 PY - 2023/// KW - South Asia KW - Description and travel N1 - 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; Dev Nath Pathak, Ratan Kumar Roy and Biswajit Das; Part I: Ways of seeing and showing -- 2; Vernacular visual: seeing in South Asia; Sadan Jha -- 3; Hermeneutic sensorium: positing a methodological dynamics of seen-unseen; Dev Nath Pathak -- 4; Visual anthropology in Nepal: a critical trajectory of practices and a way forward; Fidel Devkota --; Part II: Approaches, representations and politics -- 5; Myths, and the visual imagination: the "Duplicitous Maiden" as a narrative theme in Gond art; Roma Chatterji -- 6; Transport art of Dhaka: where the invisible city becomes visible; Tabassum Zaman -- 7; Visual inscriptions upon landscapes of loss: memorialising Thileepan in Sri Lanka; Malathi de Alwis -- 8; Seeing the invisible: anthropological reflections on the representation of the Rabari community in Rajasthan; Urmi Bhattacharyya; Part III: Seeing public and mediation -- 9; South Asian ways of seeing: towards a visual public sphere; Amrita Ajay -- 10; Visual public in South Asia: seeing and showing in the digital sphere; Ratan Kumar Roy and Ridhi Kakkar -- 11; Visibility of Sindhi progressive Sufism in the new media domain of Pakistan; M. Rafiqe Wassan -- 12; Visual, visibility and memory: television in everyday life in Rajasthan; Biswajit Das --; Part IV: Image-making and manufacturing meanings -- 13; Collective making of press photographs: an ethnographic enquiry; Siddhi Bhandari -- 14; The vulnerability of visual vocabulary on refugee representation: the voyage of Boatwo/men Rohingya; Dilpreet Bhullar -- 15; Visual matters: unpacking political communication and politics of the camera; Farhat Basir Khan -- Index; Also available as an e-book ER -