Media Indigeneity and Nation in South Asia 1st Edition Markus Schleiter

1 Introduction: screening indigeneity and nation

PART I Vernacular popular culture: movies and music videos

2 Himachali indigeneity: Gaddi music VCDs and expressions of belonging

3 ‘Manbhum’ videos and their many contours: contexts, contents, and the comic mode as a subversive form

4 Films, flirts, and no dances: a village video night and the circulation of popular Santali VCDs among Birhor people in India

5 The diffused substance of Bhojpuri indigeneity

PART II Politicising indigeneity: video clips and movies

6 Primitive accumulation and “primitive” subjects in postcolonial India: tracing the myriad real and virtual lives of mediatised indigeneity activism

7 Giving voice? Experiences of collaboration on indigenous video-making projects

8 From clanships to cyber communities: India’s Northeast in the digital age

9 Projecting and rejecting indigeneity: ‘From Bangladesh with Love’

PART III Documenting and fictionalising indigeneity

10 Made in India: ethnographic films beyond visual anthropology

11 Critiquing stereotypes? Documentary as dialogue with the Garo

12 YouTube and the rising trend of indigenous folk dance: the case of the sakela dance of the Rai in Nepal and their diaspora

13 Identity, indigeneity, and cultural props: portraying the Tai-Ahoms in two Assamese films based on the legend of Joymati

14 Polyandry, sexuality and the (mis)representation of indigenous women on Indian screens. The film Sonam: The Fortunate One

15 Afterword: meditations on media in digital times