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In the Forest
Visual and Material Worlds of Andamanese History (1858-2006)
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2009
Summary
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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Edition
1/2009
Copyright Year
2009
ISBN-Print
978-0-7618-4153-1
ISBN-Online
978-0-7618-4272-9
Publisher
Hamilton Books, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
428
Product Type
Monograph
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Acknowledgment No access
Chapter 01. Introduction No access Pages 1 - 26
Chapter 02. The Past Imagined in the Dugong Elegies No access
Chapter 03. The Documentation of the Andamanese: From Photography to Ethnography No access
Chapter 04. Things in Time: Carriers of Continuity and Change No access
Chapter 05. Materiality Mapped No access
Chapter 06. Signifying Practices: he “Violent” Other No access
Chapter 07. Images and Imaginations: Modernist Encounters No access
Chapter 08. Towards a Political Economy of Visualized Material No access
Chapter 09. The Specter of “Hostility”: The Sentinelese betweenT ext and Image No access
Appendix A. Tools As Part of Culture and History No access Pages 365 - 372
Appendix B. Smoking Pipes As Part of Contact History and Culture No access Pages 373 - 376
Appendix C. Body Adornments As Markers of Contact Relations and Culture No access Pages 377 - 386
