In the forest : visual and material worlds of Andamanese history, 1858-2006 /

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There are always at least two 'histories' of encounter or contact, as each party would tell the story differently, but where and when is it really the 'first contact' and for whom? This book deploys an analytical framework developed from Semiotics to haveboth sides of the story a...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Pandya, Vishvajit
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, ©2009.
Temas:
Onge (Indic people) > Social life and customs.
Jarawa (Indic people) > Social life and customs.
Onge (Peuple de l'Inde) > Mœurs et coutumes.
Jarawa (Peuple de l'Inde) > Mœurs et coutumes.
HISTORY.
Manners and customs.
Andaman and Nicobar Islands (India) > Social life and customs.
Andaman et Nicobar (Inde) > Mœurs et coutumes.
India > Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgment; Chapter 01. Introduction; Part I. VISUALITY; Chapter 02. The Past Imagined in the Dugong Elegies; Chapter 03. The Documentation of the Andamanese: From Photography to Ethnography; PART II. MATERIALITY; Chapter 04. Things in Time: Carriers of Continuity and Change; Chapter 05. Materiality Mapped; Part III. HISTORY; Chapter 06. Signifying Practices: he "Violent" Other; Chapter 07. Images and Imaginations: Modernist Encounters; PART IV. CONCLUSION AND BEYOND; Chapter 08. Towards a Political Economy of Visualized Material
  • Chapter 09. The Specter of "Hostility": The Sentinelese betweenT ext and ImageAppendix A. Tools As Part of Culture and History; Appendix B. Smoking Pipes As Part of Contact History and Culture; Appendix C. Body Adornments As Markers of Contact Relations and Culture; Appendix D. Maps; Abbreviations; Glossary; Bibliography; Index

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