The Camera as Witness: A Social History of Mizoram, Northeast India

by Joy L. K. Pachuau and Willem van Schendel

Book Overview

The Camera as Witness lifts the veil off the little known world of Mizoram and challenges - through unpublished photographs - core assumptions in the writing of India's national history.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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107073391
• ISBN13: 9781107073395
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 502 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.4" x 9.3"