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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (1): 95–114.
Published: 01 May 2020
...) but also of the semantic features of its material instantiations (its bibliographic code).” 2 Scholarship concerned with modernist aesthetic explorations of the visual and material form of the book, however, has excluded from its modernist framing book cultures that lie outside the geography of the West...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2010) 30 (3): 574–582.
Published: 01 December 2010
..., I look at how jazz was identified, criticized, and appropriated by engaging with various printed and visual materials. I argue that the “horrible monster” of jazz was the site of negotiating different notions of the public in 1920s Istanbul. Duke University Press 2011...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (2): 348–355.
Published: 01 August 2022
... a unique political arrangement (“two kings”) was expressed by courtiers, chroniclers, and poets in the language of a stylized fiction of love. The article tries to make meaning of the “two kings” problem by looking at a set of textual and visual materials and situates them within a context of “multilayered...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2021) 41 (1): 106–121.
Published: 01 May 2021
..., Hedayat appears wearing a loose scarf. A common visual element associated mostly with middle and upper-middle class women in Iran, the loose scarf in her video was, in fact, a condition for the public display of her work; all public exhibitions in Iran are monitored by the Ministry of Culture. Hedayat's...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2023) 43 (2): 176–190.
Published: 01 August 2023
... to infrastructure has rematerialized the ocean in suggestive ways as it gets visibilized as a cultural object, spectacle, and specter through mobile oceanic artifacts such as the dhow. In the contemporary visual media analyzed in this article, the dhow is both metaphor and practice, conduit and message...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2023) 43 (1): 61–81.
Published: 01 May 2023
... providing a new life for one ancient monument, but also claiming a space in which many forms of Buddhism, Buddhist architecture, and cultural heritage can appear together. The Buddhavanam thus provides a visual and physical manifestation of the Telangana state government's attempts at forging an inclusive...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (1): 24–34.
Published: 01 May 2020
..., the protagonists of the narrative to follow surely did not assert artistic intent. Yet latent questions emerge from their work: around ephemerality in architecture and its performance as a characteristically visual medium, with an emphasis on the cultural and political life of that performativity. This essay...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (2): 317–326.
Published: 01 August 2024
... of expanding the history of capitalism requires methods that do not prioritize what is visible. Scholars of visual cultural studies have asked us to consider the many ways—material, social, epistemological, and ontological—in which light and seeing have operated. Their work warns us against taking visibility...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2011) 31 (3): 664–667.
Published: 01 December 2011
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does an excellent job of demonstrating the richness ever, is not simply a material or institutional con-
of visual and material sources for urban and colo- cretion; it is an imaginative and ethical disposition
Comparative nial history and will provide a valuable...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2011) 31 (3): 667–669.
Published: 01 December 2011
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does an excellent job of demonstrating the richness ever, is not simply a material or institutional con-
of visual and material sources for urban and colo- cretion; it is an imaginative and ethical disposition
Comparative nial history and will provide a valuable...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2011) 31 (3): 658–659.
Published: 01 December 2011
...-
does an excellent job of demonstrating the richness ever, is not simply a material or institutional con-
of visual and material sources for urban and colo- cretion; it is an imaginative and ethical disposition
Comparative nial history and will provide a valuable...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2011) 31 (3): 660–662.
Published: 01 December 2011
...-
does an excellent job of demonstrating the richness ever, is not simply a material or institutional con-
of visual and material sources for urban and colo- cretion; it is an imaginative and ethical disposition
Comparative nial history and will provide a valuable...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2011) 31 (3): 662–664.
Published: 01 December 2011
...-
does an excellent job of demonstrating the richness ever, is not simply a material or institutional con-
of visual and material sources for urban and colo- cretion; it is an imaginative and ethical disposition
Comparative nial history and will provide a valuable...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2011) 31 (3): 669–670.
Published: 01 December 2011
...-
does an excellent job of demonstrating the richness ever, is not simply a material or institutional con-
of visual and material sources for urban and colo- cretion; it is an imaginative and ethical disposition
Comparative nial history and will provide a valuable...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (1): 96–110.
Published: 01 May 2019
... These handily sized pocketbooks testify to the persistence of the culture of erudite listeners, who were expected to be familiar with the poetry and visuals of music as well as the compositional structure of music. These forms of curating and circulating musical connoisseurship were elements in a larger...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2009) 29 (2): 230–245.
Published: 01 August 2009
..., scholars have reexamined
tion of the media had truly begun to shape khadi as an aspect of material culture clearly
world politics. Within the subcontinent, images central to the development of institutions and
operated across language barriers...
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Public Performances of Identity Negotiation in the Iranian Diaspora: The New York Persian Day Parade
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2011) 31 (2): 388–410.
Published: 01 August 2011
... of cultural identity in diaspora are cre- herent in studies of diasporic identity, visual
ated. The display of Iranian ethnic diversity is anthropology offers particularly useful meth...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2012) 32 (2): 323–338.
Published: 01 August 2012
... on a careful selection of key narrative themes and visual symbols. © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 Imaging Islamic Identity:
Negotiated Norms of Representation
in British- Muslim Picture Books
Torsten Janson
uring the s, safeguarding the cultural identity of the next...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2012) 32 (1): 130–146.
Published: 01 May 2012
...Valerie Behiery The Muslim veil is a heavily charged site in mainstream Western culture and media. However, its continued use as a visual shorthand for the oppressed Muslim woman, and by extension for the misogyny and violence of Islam, stands in sharp contrast to the numerous depictions...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2013) 33 (1): 75–88.
Published: 01 May 2013
... the notion of Middle East.
modernity in Abadan in terms of the visual aes-
thetics of Westernization, and thus renders invis- Intersecting Histories of Filmmaking
ible the material and social conditions of Iran’s and Oil Extraction
working class that resulted from the development Postcolonial studies...
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