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In the Forest : Visual and Material Worlds of Andamanese History

This extraordinary book brings long years of ethnographic engagement with the Ongee and the Jarawa, otherwise known as the Andaman Islanders, to render an intimate history of their contact with traders, colonialists, global tourists and the developmental state. —Veena Das
Print Book, English, [2009?], ©2009
University Press of America, Lanham, [2009?], ©2009
History
ix, 427 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
9780761841531, 9780761842729, 0761841539, 0761842721
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Chapter 1. Introduction Part 2 Part I. Visuality Chapter 3 Chapter 2. The Past Imagined In the Dugong Elegies Chapter 4 Chapter 3. The Documentation of the Adamanese: From Photography to Ethnography Part 5 Part II. Materiality Chapter 6 Chapter 4. Things in Time: Carriers of Continuity and Change Chapter 7 Chapter 5. Materiality Mapped Part 8 Part III. History Chapter 9 Chapter 6. Signifying Practices: The "violent" Other Chapter 10 Chapter 7. Images and Imaginations: Modernist Encounters Part 11 Part IV. Conclusion and Beyond Chapter 12 Chapter 8. Towards a Political Economy of Visualized Material Chapter 13 Chapter 9. The Spectre of "hostility"-The Sentinelese Between Text and Image