This book examines how in South Asia popular music videos, activist political clips, movies and documentaries about, by and for indigenous communities take on radically new significances. Drawing on perspectivesfrom media studies and visual anthropology, this book compares and contrasts the situation in South Asia with indigeneity globally.
This book examines how in South Asia popular music videos, activist political clips, movies and documentaries about, by and for indigenous communities take on radically new significances. Drawing on perspectivesfrom media studies and visual anthropology, this book compares and contrasts the situation in South Asia with indigeneity globally.
Markus Schleiter is Lecturer in the Institute of Ethnology at Münster University, Germany. Erik de Maaker is Assistant Professor in the Department of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology at Leiden University, The Netherlands.
Inhaltsangabe
List of figures Notes on contributors Acknowledgements 1 Introduction: screening indigeneity and nation ERIK DE MAAKER AND MARKUS SCHLEITER PART I Vernacular popular culture: movies and music videos 2 Himachali indigeneity: Gaddi music VCDs and expressions of belonging ANJA WAGNER 3 'Manbhum' videos and their many contours: contexts, contents, and the comic mode as a subversive form MADHUJA MUKHERJEE 4 Films, flirts, and no dances: a village video night and the circulation of popular Santali VCDs among Birhor people in India MARKUS SCHLEITER 5 The diffused substance of Bhojpuri indigeneity AKSHAYA KUMAR PART II Politicising indigeneity: video clips and movies 6 Primitive accumulation and "primitive" subjects in postcolonial India: tracing the myriad real and virtual lives of mediatised indigeneity activism UDAY CHANDRA 7 Giving voice? Experiences of collaboration on indigenous video-making projects RADHIKA BORDE 8 From clanships to cyber communities: India's Northeast in the digital age DAISY HASAN 9 Projecting and rejecting indigeneity: 'From Bangladesh with Love' CARMEN BRANDT PART III Documenting and fictionalising indigeneity 10 Made in India: ethnographic films beyond visual anthropology GIULIA BATTAGLIA 11 Critiquing stereotypes? Documentary as dialogue with the Garo ERIK DE MAAKER 12 YouTube and the rising trend of indigenous folk dance: the case of the sakela dance of the Rai in Nepal and their diaspora MARION WETTSTEIN 13 Identity, indigeneity, and cultural props: portraying the Tai-Ahoms in two Assamese films based on the legend of Joymati ARZUMAN ARA 14 Polyandry, sexuality and the (mis)representation of indigenous women on Indian screens. The film Sonam: The Fortunate One MARA MATTA 15 Afterword: meditations on media in digital times ROBIN JEFFREY Index
List of figures Notes on contributors Acknowledgements 1 Introduction: screening indigeneity and nation ERIK DE MAAKER AND MARKUS SCHLEITER PART I Vernacular popular culture: movies and music videos 2 Himachali indigeneity: Gaddi music VCDs and expressions of belonging ANJA WAGNER 3 'Manbhum' videos and their many contours: contexts, contents, and the comic mode as a subversive form MADHUJA MUKHERJEE 4 Films, flirts, and no dances: a village video night and the circulation of popular Santali VCDs among Birhor people in India MARKUS SCHLEITER 5 The diffused substance of Bhojpuri indigeneity AKSHAYA KUMAR PART II Politicising indigeneity: video clips and movies 6 Primitive accumulation and "primitive" subjects in postcolonial India: tracing the myriad real and virtual lives of mediatised indigeneity activism UDAY CHANDRA 7 Giving voice? Experiences of collaboration on indigenous video-making projects RADHIKA BORDE 8 From clanships to cyber communities: India's Northeast in the digital age DAISY HASAN 9 Projecting and rejecting indigeneity: 'From Bangladesh with Love' CARMEN BRANDT PART III Documenting and fictionalising indigeneity 10 Made in India: ethnographic films beyond visual anthropology GIULIA BATTAGLIA 11 Critiquing stereotypes? Documentary as dialogue with the Garo ERIK DE MAAKER 12 YouTube and the rising trend of indigenous folk dance: the case of the sakela dance of the Rai in Nepal and their diaspora MARION WETTSTEIN 13 Identity, indigeneity, and cultural props: portraying the Tai-Ahoms in two Assamese films based on the legend of Joymati ARZUMAN ARA 14 Polyandry, sexuality and the (mis)representation of indigenous women on Indian screens. The film Sonam: The Fortunate One MARA MATTA 15 Afterword: meditations on media in digital times ROBIN JEFFREY Index
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