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Materiality and Visuality in North East India

An Interdisciplinary Perspective

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Editors:
  1. Tiplut Nongbri

    1. Centre for North East Study and Policy Research, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India

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  2. Rashi Bhargava

    1. Department of Sociology, Maitreyi College, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India

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  • Addresses comprehensively issues of materiality and visuality in the context of North East India

  • Brings together an international group of scholars with extensive experience in the field

  • Explores all issues from an interdisciplinary perspective

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxxvii
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  3. Material and Visual as Vehicles of Power and Hegemony: Adaptations and Negotiations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 55-55
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    2. Mai-Baaps and Minis: Spatiality, Visuality and Materiality in Assam’s Tea Gardens

      • Prithiraj Borah, Rowena Robinson
      Pages 57-71

    3. Mapping Power and Domination: Studying State Making in Arunachal Pradesh through Old Official Photographs

      • Rimi Tadu
      Pages 73-86

    4. Hau Laa and Hymn: Musicking Dynamics of the Hau-Tangkhuls

      • Pamyo Chamroy
      Pages 87-103

    5. Sartorial Matters: A Brief History of Attire in Mizoram

      • Joy L. K. Pachuau
      Pages 105-127

    6. Representing Tea, Creating Consumers: Tea Advertising in Late Colonial India

      • Natasha Nongbri
      Pages 129-150

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 215-217
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About this book

This edited book set in the context of North East India explores issues concerning symbols, meanings, representations, and social implications of materiality and visuality, as well as the  dynamics of power, social reproduction, ideological dominance and knowledge production, from an interdisciplinary perspective. It seeks to answer the question of why some things matter more than others or what happens when certain things are made more visible than others. The book provides valuable insights into the process of identity construction through the use of cultural sources, both material and visual. Following on the debates/discussions on material and visual culture in the 1970s and 1980s, the book argues that instead of viewing objects as mere representation(s), one should see them as active agents in creating perceptions, bodily practices, discourses and perceptions of our social world. Each chapter in the book unravels and engages with these pertinent issues in order to arrive at a more comprehensive understanding of the status quo. The book is of interest to scholars of ethnicity, identity construction, politics and state, cultural studies, media studies, visual, social and cultural anthropology and sociology, as well as lay readers who want to learn more about the region.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Centre for North East Study and Policy Research, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India

    Tiplut Nongbri

  • Department of Sociology, Maitreyi College, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India

    Rashi Bhargava

About the editors

Tiplut Nongbri is currently Dr. Saifuddin Kitchlew Chair Professor at the Centre for North East Study and Policy Research, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. She had taught Sociology at the Centre for the Study of Social Systems, School of Social Sciences, JNU. She was the founding director of the North East India Studies Programme, JNU. She has published widely. Her research interests include family and kinship, studies of tribes and marginal groups, environmental sociology and development issues. 


Rashi Bhargava is currently Assistant Professor at the Department of Sociology, Maitreyi College, University of Delhi, New Delhi (India). She has a Doctorate in Sociology from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Her research interests consist broadly of politics, ethnicity, identity construction and civil society in the region of North East India. She is also interested in issues of methodology and theory. In the past, she has taught at the Department of Sociology, Hindu College and Kamala Nehru College of University of Delhi.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Materiality and Visuality in North East India

  • Book Subtitle: An Interdisciplinary Perspective

  • Editors: Tiplut Nongbri, Rashi Bhargava

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-1970-0

  • Publisher: Springer Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-16-1969-4Published: 17 July 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-16-1972-4Published: 18 July 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-16-1970-0Published: 16 July 2021

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXXVII, 217

  • Number of Illustrations: 39 b/w illustrations, 17 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Cultural Anthropology, Social Anthropology, Media Sociology

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