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Photography had played a central role in the emergence of anthropology as a discipline in the late colonial period. Despite this, why is it that photography is not taken seriously in contemporary mainstream social anthropology and sociology in South asia and, to a great extent, in the rest of the worlds a possible way of conducting research or as an object of research? The fear of the visual? Explores this Question through a study of the histo...

This book critically examines the role and politics of humour and the performance of power in South Asia. The volume explores the impact of humour in South Asian folklore, ritual performances, media and journalism, and online technologies.

This book critically examines the role and politics of humour and the performance of power in South Asia. The volume explores the impact of humour in South Asian folklore, ritual performances, media and journalism, and online technologies.

Against the Nation invites readers to explore South Asia as a place and as an idea with a sense of reflection and nuance rather than submitting to conventional understanding of the region merely in geopolitical terms. The authors take the readers across a vast terrain of prospects like visual culture, music, film, knowledge systems and classrooms, myth and history as well as forms of politics that offer possibilities for reading South Asia as ...