ISBN10: 1107073391, ISBN13: 9781107073395, [publisher: CAMBRIDGE] Hardcover
[DH, SE, Spain] [Publication Year: 2015]

Cambridge University Press 2015 Hard cover New The book challenges the stereotypes about and narrates the daily lives of the Mizos through the use of vernacular photography. Num Pages: 502 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HBJF; HBTB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 242 x 168 x 46. Weight in Grams: 860. 2015. Illustrated. hardcover.....We ship daily from our Bookshop.

ISBN10: 1107073391, ISBN13: 9781107073395, [publisher: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge] Hardcover Hardcover. The Camera as Witness lifts the veil off the little known world of Mizoram and challenges - through unpublished photographs - core assumptions in the writing of India's national history.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. Northeast India has for long been classified as remote, exotic and underdeveloped, and has been denied significant attention. This book invests focus where it is due, chronicling the fascinating history of the Mizos through vernacular photography. It brings together the questions of identity formation, nation and global cultures. Shipping may ...
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Cambridge Univ Pr, Date: 2015. Hardcover. New. 475 pages. 9.00x6.25x1.50 inches. 2015. Cambridge Univ Pr ISBN 1107073391 9781107073395 [GB]

ISBN10: 1107073391, ISBN13: 9781107073395, [publisher: Cambridge University Press] Hardcover pp. 504 Figures Maps
[Hounslow, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2015]

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ISBN10: 1107073391, ISBN13: 9781107073395, [publisher: Cambridge University Press CUP] Hardcover pp. 504, Maps, Index
[New York, NY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2015]

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ISBN10: 1107073391, ISBN13: 9781107073395, [publisher: Cambridge University Press 2015-04-13, New York] Hardcover Language: ENG
[London, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2015]

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ISBN10: 1107073391, ISBN13: 9781107073395, [publisher: Cambridge University Press] Hardcover
[Princeton, NJ, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2015]