India and its visual cultures : community, class and gender in a symbolic landscape /
"India and its Visual Cultures is a comprehensive mapping and analysis of contemporary cultural artefacts and visual cultures through different approaches--iconographic, social, political, religious, etc. This volume covers various media and their histories. The authors study visual representat...
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New Delhi, India ; Thousand Oaks, California :
SAGE Publications,
c2018
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Mapping visual cultures in India
- Part I. Camera works
- The photograph in social science research : a few ethical and practical questions / Malavika Karlekar
- Unlikely "devis" : gender and imagination on and off the silver screen / Anusuya Kumar
- Visualising death and the corpse : perspectives on post-mortem photographs in central eastern India / Uwe Skoda and Birgit Lettmann
- Part II. Folk/artistry
- 9/11 and the folk artists of Bengal / Roma Chatterji
- From ritual images to animated movies : the transformative journey of the Sora paintings (central eastern India) / Cecile Guillaume-Pey
- Anjan Sen's visual poetry and the Bengal Uttar-Adhunik School / Asunción López-Varela Azcárate
- Part III. Market signs
- The visual culture of meat-shop signs in Delhi / Rita Brara
- The imagery of Indian matchmaking : representations of community, class and gender in a transnational online matrimonial market / Fritzi-Marie Titzmann
- Part IV. Pictorial politics
- A museum, a memorial, and a martyr : politics of memory in the Sikh golden temple / Radhika Chopra
- Divine order, social disorder : debating the visual representations of Laloo Prasad Yadav / Ronie Parciack and Ilanit Loewy Shacham
- Amma provides for all : popular devotional aesthetics, material politics and the Amman in Tamil Nadu / Jill Reese
- Part V. Monumental landscapes
- Building "monuments" in a world-class city : aesthetics and politics of contemporary Delhi / Sushmita Pati
- Mayawati's politics of Sthals : spectacle of the symbolic landscape / Upasona Khound.