List of figures

Notes on contributors



Acknowledgements

1 Introduction: screening indigeneity and nation



ERIK DE MAAKER AND MARKUS SCHLEITER

PART I



Vernacular popular culture: movies and music videos



2 Himachali indigeneity: Gaddi music VCDs and expressions of belonging



ANJA WAGNER

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



MADHUJA MUKHERJEE

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



MARKUS SCHLEITER

5 The diffused substance of Bhojpuri indigeneity



AKSHAYA KUMAR

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



UDAY CHANDRA

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



RADHIKA BORDE

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



DAISY HASAN

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



CARMEN BRANDT

PART III



Documenting and fictionalising indigeneity



10 Made in India: ethnographic films beyond visual anthropology



GIULIA BATTAGLIA

11 Critiquing stereotypes? Documentary as dialogue with the Garo



ERIK DE MAAKER

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



MARION WETTSTEIN

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



ARZUMAN ARA

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



MARA MATTA

15 Afterword: meditations on media in digital times



ROBIN JEFFREY

Index