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Reorienting Visual and Digital Anthropology: Southeast Asian Perspectives book cover

1st Edition

Reorienting Visual and Digital Anthropology Southeast Asian Perspectives

Edited By Alison L. Kahn, Rukshana Zaman Copyright 2027
308 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

308 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

This volume reorients visual anthropology beyond its historically Western vantage point through a collaborative, cross-cultural editorship. With contributions from anthropologists with cultural connections to the Indian subcontinent, it presents contemporary ethnographic practice as it unfolds across both analogue and digital media. It examines representation across multiple forms—from film and... Read more

Introduction

Part I - Embodied Practices and Local Knowledge Systems

1. Everyday Life in a Gujjar Village: A Visual Representation

Sakib Marazi

2. Visualising Indigenous Knowledge: Traditional Fishing Techniques among the Hanji People of Kashmir

Hashmat Habib

3. Silent Storytelling: A Visual Narrative of Mime

Parishmita Kashyap and Garima Thakuria

Part II - Adapting Ethnographic Fieldwork Methods and Teaching to the Digital World

4. Play, Stretch, Ferment: On Creativity, Materiality, and Ethnographic Collaboration

Maruška Svašek

5. Social Media as the New Ethnographic Field: Exploring Lived Experiences

Smarika Awasthi Sharma

6. COVID-19: Experiences of Teaching Anthropology Through Facebook Live Sessions

Rukshana Zaman

Part III - Digital Documentation, Photography, Ethnographic Filmmaking

7. The Narrative Practice of Folk Video Films: Taking ‘The Spring Festival in Eastern Henan in Huamo' as an Example

Fengxia Zhang

8. Tradition in Transition: Ethnographic Practice and Digital Spaces Among the Bakarwal Tribe of the Northwest Himalayas

Ubaid Ahmad Dar

9. The Visuality of Food-Making: A Reading of Indian Village Cooking Vlogs on YouTube

Kiranmayi Bhushi

10. Image, the Language of Architecture Education

Urvi Khanna

Part IV - Visual Anthropology: Tangible and Intangible Heritage and Culture

11. Understanding Koch Rajbongshi Community through the Lens of Proverbs

Ratnadeep Sinha and Sanghamitra Choudhury

12. Catalogue of Desire: Exploring Sexual Dynamics of Khajuraho

Manisha Saha

13. Propagation of Buddhism through the Thangka Painting with reference to Sikkim

Ayasha Limboo and N. Atungbou

Part V - AI and Machine Learning in Museums and Creative Platforms

14. From Sacred to Simulated: Artificial Intelligence and the Visual Mediation of Theyyam

Nithya Andrew

15. Liminality and Embodiment in the Museum: Towards a Reflexive Cultural Interface

Alison L. Kahn

Biography

Alison L. Kahn is a visual and museum anthropologist and Associate in Research and Innovation at Loughborough University, UK.

Rukshana Zaman teaches anthropology at Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), New Delhi, India.

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