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TY  - BOOK
ID  - 85468662
TI  - The camera as witness : a social history of Mizoram, Northeast India
AU  - Pachuau, Joy
AU  - Schendel, Willem van
PY  - 2015
SN  - 1316390950 1316391752 1316391957 1316392155 131639235X 1316391558 1139683470 1107073391 1316391353
PB  - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,
DB  - UniCat
KW  - Mizoram (India)--Civilization.
KW  - Mizoram (India)--Civilization--Pictorial works.
KW  - Mizoram (India)--History--19th century.
KW  - Mizoram (India)--History--19th century--Pictorial works.
KW  - Mizoram (India)--Social conditions--Pictorial works.
KW  - Regions & Countries - Asia & the Middle East
KW  - History & Archaeology
KW  - South Asia
KW  - Mizoram (India)
KW  - Mijorāma (India)
KW  - Lushai Hills District (India)
KW  - Mizo District (India)
KW  - Mizo Hills District (India)
KW  - Mizo (India)
KW  - History
KW  - Civilization.
KW  - Civilization
KW  - Social conditions.
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Social life and customs.
KW  - Social life and customs
UR  - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85468662
AB  - The Camera as Witness lifts the veil off the little known world of Mizoram and challenges - through unpublished photographs - core assumptions in the writing of India's national history. The pictures in the book establish the transformation of this society and the many forms of modernity that have emerged in it. It emphasises how 'indigenous people' in Mizoram used cameras to produce distinct modern identities and represent themselves to themselves, consistently contesting outsiders' imaginations of them as isolated, backward and in need of upliftment. The authors demonstrate how mostly amateur photographers used visual images to document a historical trajectory of heady change and continual reinvention, producing distinct modern identities. By virtue of its use of visual sources and its engagement with a wide range of important discourses, this book is relevant for students, historians, social scientists, political activists and general readers looking for a fresh approach to Northeast India.
ER  -