ABSTRACT
How do videos, movies and documentaries dedicated to indigenous communities transform the media landscape of South Asia? Based on extensive original research, this book examines how in South Asia popular music videos, activist political clips, movies and documentaries about, by and for indigenous communities take on radically new significances. Media, Indigeneity and Nation in South Asia shows how in the portrayal of indigenous groups by both ‘insiders’ and ‘outsiders’ imaginations of indigeneity and nation become increasingly interlinked. Indigenous groups, typically marginal to the nation, are at the same time part of mainstream polities and cultures. Drawing on perspectives from media studies and visual anthropology, this book compares and contrasts the situation in South Asia with indigeneity globally.
Chapter 1 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at https://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivatives (CC-BY-ND) 4.0 license.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|77 pages
Vernacular popular culture
chapter 3|20 pages
‘Manbhum’ videos and their many contours
chapter 4|24 pages
Films, flirts, and no dances
part II|66 pages
Politicising indigeneity
chapter 6|15 pages
Primitive accumulation and “primitive” subjects in postcolonial India
part III|103 pages
Documenting and fictionalising indigeneity