[ecrea] New book: Visual Histories of South Asia

NEW BOOK 'Visual Histories of South Asia' by Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes 
and Marcus Banks (2018, Primus)

We are delighted to announce the publication of 'Visual Histories of 
South Asia', edited by Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes and Marcus Banks (with a 
Foreword by Christopher Pinney). This volume is one of the first 
comprehensive contributions to the rapidly developing cross-disciplinary 
scholarship that connects visual studies with South Asian 
historiography. The key purpose of the book is to introduce scholars and 
students of South Asian and Indian history to a detailed evaluation of 
visual research methods as a valid research framework for new historical 
studies. The volume identifies and evaluates current developments in 
visual sociology and digital anthropology relevant to the study of 
contemporary South Asian constructions of personal and national 
identities. The thirteen contributions selected for this volume are of 
immediate relevance to visual theorists and historians, sociologists and 
cultural anthropologists, as well as to scholars of South Asian history 
and culture. The volume includes contributions by Denis Vidal, Marcus 
Banks, Josefine Baark, Thomas Simpson, Teresa Segura-Garcia, Annamaria 
Motrescu-Mayes, Imma Ramos, Xavier Guegan, Adrian P. Ruprecht, Aaron 
Bryant, Ronie Parciak, Souvik Naha, and Siddharth Pandey.

Reviews:
'This volume provides a rich feast of materials for anyone interested in 
the visual cultures and history of visual representation in South Asia 
and is notable as well for its fascinating exploration of the 
intersection of Western and local photographic practices’ – David 
MacDougall, Australian National University.

'This is a remarkable, genuinely interdisciplinary collection, and both 
a marvellously rich addition to the study of the life of visual images 
in South Asia, and a highly sophisticated contribution to debates of the 
interdisciplinary study of visual culture' – James Laidlaw, William Wyse 
Professor of Social Anthropology, Head of Division, Social Anthropology, 
University of Cambridge.

'This is an outstanding contribution to a timely and relevant focus on 
transregional visual history and historiography of South Asia. This 
rescaling of what is often times an India-centric visual history is 
accompanied by remarkably heterogeneous approaches from across 
disciplines and methods, challenging notions of political, cultural, 
religious or ethnic reifications. The book offers insights into original 
material and a framework of rich epistemologies, entanglements, 
relationalities and translations. It will encourage new generations of 
scholars to further push boundaries of established canons and exploring 
new frontiers of visual culture and history studies' – Christiane 
Brosius, Chair of Visual & Media Anthropology, Heidelberg Centre for 
Transcultural Studies, Heidelberg University.

'This is a unique and excellent contribution to the field of South Asian 
visual studies, art history and cultural analysis. This text takes an 
interdisciplinary approach while keeping its focus on the visual, on 
material cultural and on art and aesthetics. It brings together 
empirically rich and theoretically sophisticated analysis on 
representations from colonial and post-colonial eras ranging from 
colonial era photography to "tribal art," temple and video art. In doing 
so it bridges a major gap in our understanding of South Asia's modern 
history by using the idiom of visual culture and the politics of 
representation' – Kamran Asdar Ali, University of Texas at Austin


Link to online stores: https://amzn.to/2y2d2aE  and 
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