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Markus Schleiter and Erik de Maaker, eds. 2020. Media, Indigeneity and Nation in South Asia. London and New York: Routledge. xvi + 281 pp. Notes, figures, references, index. £120.00 (hardback)

Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Contents -- Editors and Contributors -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- Part I Objects, Images and Meanings: Methodological Interventions -- 1 Negotiating the Visibility of 'Habitus' of 'the Nagas' and their Photographers -- Introduction -- Pierre Bourdieu, 'Habitus' and 'Hexis' -- The Nagas and Their Photographers -- Visual Sources of the Nineteenth Century -- Imagery After the Turn of the Century -- Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf -- Hans-Eberhard Kauffmann -- Photography After World War II and in the New Millenium -- Conclusion -- References -- 2 'We Were the Others': Visuality in Colonial Writings -- Anecdote from the 'Others' -- Construction of the 'Other' -- Colonial Writings and the Nagas -- Photo Analysis and Photo-Elicitation -- The 'Other' Needs to Be Objectified in Order to Construct the 'Self' -- Interpretations and Contextualisation -- When the 'Others' Spoke Up -- Final Word: Reflexivity -- References -- 3 Conversation Pieces: How Digital Technologies might Reinvigorate and reveal the Social Lives of Objects -- Introduction -- Source Communities -- Who Owns Naga Heritage? -- Combined/Collaborative Methodologies -- Exhibition -- How Did We Get Here? -- The Body and Agent of Human Experience -- Conclusion -- References -- Part II Material and Visual as Vehicles of Power and Hegemony: Adaptations and Negotiations -- 4 Mai-Baaps and Minis: Spatiality, Visuality and Materiality in Assam's Tea Gardens -- Introduction -- Constructing the 'Garden' -- Understanding the Gendered Plantation -- Plantation: Time, Work and Representation -- Beyond the Plantations: Representation of Minis in Advertisements -- Conclusion -- References -- 5 Mapping Power and Domination: Studying State Making in Arunachal Pradesh through Old Official Photographs -- Introduction -- The Coming of the State.