Vishvajit Pandya

In the Forest

Visual and Material Worlds of Andamanese History (1858-2006)

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This extraordinary book brings long years of ethnographic engagement with the Ongee and the Jarawa, otherwise known as the Andaman Islanders, to render an intimate history of their contact with traders, colonialists, global tourists and the developmental state. -Veena Das

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 438
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. April 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 707g
• ISBN-13: 9780761841531
• ISBN-10: 0761841539
• Artikelnr.: 25693121

Autorenporträt

Vishvajit Pandya earned his Doctorate in Anthropology from the University of Chicago in 1987. Since 1983 he has been involved with ethnographic research on the Andaman Islands. He has held teaching positions in the United States, New Zealand and India.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1. Introduction Part 2 Part I. Visuality Chapter 3 Chapter 2. The
Past Imagined In the Dugong Elegies Chapter 4 Chapter 3. The Documentation
of the Adamanese: From Photography to Ethnography Part 5 Part II.
Materiality Chapter 6 Chapter 4. Things in Time: Carriers of Continuity and
Change Chapter 7 Chapter 5. Materiality Mapped Part 8 Part III. History
Chapter 9 Chapter 6. Signifying Practices: The "violent" Other Chapter 10
Chapter 7. Images and Imaginations: Modernist Encounters Part 11 Part IV.
Conclusion and Beyond Chapter 12 Chapter 8. Towards a Political Economy of
Visualized Material Chapter 13 Chapter 9. The Spectre of "hostility"-The
Sentinelese Between Text and Image