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The Visual Turn: South Asia Across the Disciplines book cover

1st Edition

The Visual Turn South Asia Across the Disciplines

Edited By Sandria Freitag Copyright 2015
158 Pages
by Routledge

158 Pages
by Routledge

128 Pages
by Routledge
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The Visual Turn: South Asia Across the Disciplines explores new perspectives made possible by the evidence drawn from visual culture. This evidence is utilized by historians, literary analysts, anthropologists and, in a new way, art historians. Focusing on built environments within their urban contexts; the interactions of buildings, roads, and bodies; the meaning-making achieved... Read more

1. 'The Visual Turn: Approaching South Asia Across the Disciplines', 2. 'Jaipur, City of Tolerance and Progress', 3. 'A Visual History of Three Lucknows', 4. 'The Urdu Khushtar Ramayan: Verbal- and Visual-Narrative Repertoires and "Sense of Place" ' 5. 'Visual Strategies for Literary Authority in Modern Hindi', 6. 'Imaging Caste: Photography, the Housing Question, and the Making of Sociology in Colonial Bombay, 1900-1939', 7. 'The Visual Turn in Political Anthropology and the Mediation of Political Practice in Contemporary India',

Biography

Sandria B. Freitag has long explored a range of source materials used to answer new questions about non-elites in Indian society (ranging from criminality to public-space activities), and tracing change from the British period through the 20th century. Her current work deals with the first two 'mass'-produced and -consumed forms of visual culture.

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