India and its visual cultures : community, class and gender in a symbolic landscape/ edited by Uwe Skoda; Birgit Lettmann

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TextPublication details: SAGE, 2017.ISBN:

9789386446695

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Social Science

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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.

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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.

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