Title | India and its visual cultures : community, class and gender in a symbolic landscape |
Main title | India and its visual cultures : community, class and gender in a symbolic landscape / edited by Uwe Skoda, Birgit Lettmann . |
Publication Details | Los Angeles : SAGE، 2018. |
Description | xli, 379 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm . |
ISBN | 9789386446688 (hardback) . |
Notes | 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 ; 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 . |
Subjects |
Visual communication » India » History . Art and society » India » History . Mass media » Social aspects » India » History . Pictures » Social aspects » India » History . Material culture » India » History . Popular culture » India » History . India » Intellectual life » 20th century . India » Intellectual life » 21st century . |
Related name |
Lettmann, Birgit Skoda, Uwe, 1973 |
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85063 |
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