Visual histories of South Asia
By: foreword by Christopher Pinney ; edited by Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes, Marcus Banks
Publisher: Primus Books
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Delhi
Language: eng
Number of pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9789386552440; 9789386552457
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Visual anthropology; South Asian Art; Civilization
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-294) and index.
Table of contents: title: An archaeology of visual practices : exploring one's own archive / Marcus Banks; title: All for one, one for all : a new art for the Gonds / Denis Vidal; title: Decorum : courtly posturing in the visual economy of Indo-Danish diplomacy / Josefine Baark; title: The visual politics of menstruation, birth, and devotion at Kamakhya Temple in Assam / Imma Ramos; title: A fragmented gaze : depictions of frontier tribes and the beginnings of colonial anthropology / Thomas Simpson; title: Perpetual antiquity in early photographs of Ceylon / Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes; title: Picturing Indian kingship : the photographic practices of Maharaja Sayaji Rao III of Baroda / Teresa Segura-Garcia; title: From princely to barbaric : Indian masculinities as colonial landscape in Bourne and Bourne & Shepherd's photographs / Xavier Guégan; title: Teaching the alphabet of health to the Indian masses : the visual languages of the Red Cross in India, 1918-39 / Adrian Peter Ruprecht; title: Democracy beyond the borders : Martin Luther King Jr. and his tour of India, 1959 / Aaron Bryant; title: Visually playing politics : use of sports as political critique in newspaper cartoons / Souvik Naha; title: Framing Simla : the queen of hill stations and the politics of iconography / Siddharth Pandey; title: New medium, new historiography : re-narrating Islamic pasts in India through VCDs / Ronie Parciack.