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In the Forest: Visual and Material Worlds of Andamanese History (1858-2006): Visual and Material Worlds of Andamanese History (18582006) - Couverture souple

Vishvajit Pandya

 
9780761841531: In the Forest: Visual and Material Worlds of Andamanese History (1858-2006): Visual and Material Worlds of Andamanese History (18582006)
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ISBN 10 : 0761841539 ISBN 13 : 9780761841531
Editeur : University Press of America, 2009

Synopsis

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 have both sides of the story address each other. It is ethnography of dialogue, emerging from textual representation by outsiders and its relationship to visual response and presentations by the Andaman Islanders that this book aims to present as the critical ethnography of history.
The section on Visuality looks at how the Other is incorporated into an organized knowledge-system, including Ongee myths and songs about outsiders and the early photographs of tribal people by British settlers and ethnographers. The section on Materiality concerns the investment in things made, to influence natural processes or to distinguish the human body, and discusses how they are transacted between cultures that come into contact. The concluding section on history addresses encounters and developments in which the experiences of both tribal and settler are implicated more thoroughly than in the transaction of objects. Thus juxtaposing alternative perspectives on change indicates areas of experience unaccounted for in the dominant discourse and shows the provisionality of images.

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À propos de l'auteur

Vishvajit Pandya earned his Doctorate in Anthropology from the University of Chicago in 1987. Since 1983 he has been involved with ethnographic research on the Andaman Islands. He has held teaching positions in the United States, New Zealand and India.

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Éditeur
University Press of America
Date d'édition
2009
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0761841539
ISBN 13 
9780761841531
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
540
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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