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

Contributor(s): Pathak, Dev Nath [editor.] | Das, Biswajit [editor.] | Roy, Ratan Kumar [editor.].

Material type: Text

Text Language of document:EnglishPublisher: 2023Edition: South Asia edition.Description: xxiv, 295 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9781032425320.Subject(s): South Asia -- Description and travelDDC classification: 915.40452 Also available as an e-book.

Contents:

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 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 -- 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 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 -- 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.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Central Library Social Science	Social Science Collections	915.40452 P2734 Se (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		271540

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.

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