05485nam 2200469 450 991049215070332120220330131859.0981-16-1970-0(CKB)4100000011982523(MiAaPQ)EBC6679337(Au-PeEL)EBL6679337(OCoLC)1261050463(EXLCZ)99410000001198252320220330d2021 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierMateriality and visuality in North East India an interdisciplinary perspective /Tiplut Nongbri, Rashi Bhargava, editorsSingapore :Springer,[2021]©20211 online resource (240 pages)981-16-1969-7 Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Contents -- Editors and Contributors -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- Part I Objects, Images and Meanings: Methodological Interventions -- 1 Negotiating the Visibility of 'Habitus' of 'the Nagas' and their Photographers -- Introduction -- Pierre Bourdieu, 'Habitus' and 'Hexis' -- The Nagas and Their Photographers -- Visual Sources of the Nineteenth Century -- Imagery After the Turn of the Century -- Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf -- Hans-Eberhard Kauffmann -- Photography After World War II and in the New Millenium -- Conclusion -- References -- 2 'We Were the Others': Visuality in Colonial Writings -- Anecdote from the 'Others' -- Construction of the 'Other' -- Colonial Writings and the Nagas -- Photo Analysis and Photo-Elicitation -- The 'Other' Needs to Be Objectified in Order to Construct the 'Self' -- Interpretations and Contextualisation -- When the 'Others' Spoke Up -- Final Word: Reflexivity -- References -- 3 Conversation Pieces: How Digital Technologies might Reinvigorate and reveal the Social Lives of Objects -- Introduction -- Source Communities -- Who Owns Naga Heritage? -- Combined/Collaborative Methodologies -- Exhibition -- How Did We Get Here? -- The Body and Agent of Human Experience -- Conclusion -- References -- Part II Material and Visual as Vehicles of Power and Hegemony: Adaptations and Negotiations -- 4 Mai-Baaps and Minis: Spatiality, Visuality and Materiality in Assam's Tea Gardens -- Introduction -- Constructing the 'Garden' -- Understanding the Gendered Plantation -- Plantation: Time, Work and Representation -- Beyond the Plantations: Representation of Minis in Advertisements -- Conclusion -- References -- 5 Mapping Power and Domination: Studying State Making in Arunachal Pradesh through Old Official Photographs -- Introduction -- The Coming of the State.Performing the State -- People and State: Re-Reading the Official Photographs -- Conclusion -- References -- 6 Hau Laa and Hymn: Musicking Dynamics of the Hau-Tangkhuls -- Introduction -- Contextualising the Introduction of Hymn -- Conceptualising Hau Laa -- Orality and Hau Laa -- Hymn: A New Way of Imagining and Musicking -- (Re) Purposing of Music -- Conclusion -- References -- 7 Sartorial Matters: A Brief History of Attire in Mizoram -- Sainghinga and Attire -- A Brief History of Attire and Photographic Representation of the Mizos -- Debates on Attire -- Conclusion -- References -- 8 Representing Tea, Creating Consumers: Tea Advertising in Late Colonial India -- Tea Advertising in the Early Decades of the Twentieth Century -- Peddling Tea in Wartime -- Tea, the Guarantor of Welfare and Productivity -- Conclusion -- References -- Part III Imagination, Imagery and Identity: Representations and Subversions -- 9 Food is Not Just 'Food': Analysing Gender in the Assamese Foodscape -- Introduction -- Thinking 'Assameseness' -- The Gendered Foodscape -- The 'Others' in the Foodscape -- Fractured Concluding Remarks -- References -- 10 Tilted Views and C Sailo: A Study of Satire in Contemporary Indie Comics -- Introduction -- Critical Art -- Style Reconsidered -- References -- 11 Reimagining the Pastoral: Metaphors and Meanings of the Everyday in Assam and India's Northeast -- Introduction -- Collective Representations and Popular Imaginations: Bihu as Cultural Motif -- Historical Construction of North East's Discursive Reality: Marginality to Subalterneity -- Crossing Bridges: New Imageries and Meanings -- References -- 12 Weaving Resistance and Identity: Politics of Contemporary Textile Practice of the Tangkhuls -- Introduction -- Tangkhul Textile Practice and the Church -- The Role of Women Organisations in Naga Textile Practices.The Tangkhul Shanao Long and the Politics of Contemporary Kashan -- Conclusion -- References -- Glossary -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- Contents -- Editors and Contributors -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures.Material cultureIndia, NortheasternCongressesIndia, NortheasternSocial life and customsCongressesIndia, NortheasternCivilizationCongressesElectronic books.Material culture305.800954Nongbri TiplutBhargava RashiMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910492150703321Materiality and Visuality in North East India2280304UNINA