Jayasinhji Jhala
Biographic Data
| ID | 97222 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jayasinhji Jhala |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jayasinhji |
| FAMILY NAME | Jhala |
| SIGNATURE | JHALA J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Temple University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Chapter 8 Emergency Agents: A Birthing of Incipient Applied Visual Anthropology in the ‘Media Invisible’ Villages of Western India
Genealogy, Archive, Image: Interpreting Dynastic History in Western India, c.1090-2016
Traditions in Jhalavad 219 6.15 Hindu Devotional and Religious Music 219 6.15.1 Bhajan Singers 219 6.15.2 Bhajans in Dhrangadhra 220 6.15.3 Audience Interactions 222 6.15.4 Ramayana Singer 222 6.15.5 Puja 222 6.16 Muslim Devotional and Religious Music 223 6.16.1 Siddhi Culture 223 6.16.2 Siddhi in Dhrangadhra 223 6.16.3 Muslim Prayer and Recitation 224 6.17 Secular Performances 224 6.17.1 Madari Show 224 6.17.2 Langha Praise Songs 225 6.17.3 Wedd…
Drums on the Red River: The Making of a Vietnamese Ethnographic Film
This article addresses three issues. First, it examines the history of ethnographic film in Vietnam and notes the many innovations in method, practice, content and philosophy that the making of this kind of film engenders. Secondly, it examines how the adoption of a new investigative philosophy during the collaborative filming of the Chu Dong Tu Festival in northern Vietnam gave birth to an investigative strategy resulting in an innovative method…
The Domestication of an Alien System of Representation: The Arms of the Kingdom of Halvad-Dhrangadhra
Since the 1990s with the liberalization of the Indian economy and a new emergence of wealth, this domesticated alien visual symbolic system has been revived and deployed to advance the status of individuals and groups [Appadurai 1986 Appadurai , Arjun 1986 The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press .[Crossref] , [Google Scholar]]. The agency of the heraldic device has grown, demanding a…
Representing story: Shaping memory in Western India
This article comes from a womb nurtured by several nourishing streams of inquiry. It is premised on the anthropological concepts of enchantment and encaptivation as developed by Alfred Gell, as well as by the writings of Hocart on kingship and on the importance of the senses in making meaning by Paul Stoller. It builds on the concepts of ethnofiction developed by filmmaker Jean Rouch and of Goffman's ideas about the presentation of self in ethnog…
Visual interventions: Applied visual anthropology
there's a great deal social researchers doing visual work can learn from Pink's book...It's a valuable resource for researchers, activists, and social service workers looking for innovative visual methodologies for collaborative research and social intervention. It makes an excellent contribution to the ongoing academic debate over the value of applied and visual social research, as well. * Contexts, Magazine of the American Sociological Associat…
Journey With Ganesh: Telling stories of objects acting in the world and as being acted upon in the world
Ideas about the ‘social life of things’ propounded by Arjun Appadurai ( 1986 ) and the ‘agency of objects’ suggested by Alfred Gell ( 1998 ) provide different perspectives for two stories of icons
In a Time of Fear and Terror Seeing, Assessing, Assisting Understanding and Living the Reality and Consequences of Disaster
In the aftermath of the terrible earthquake in India in 2001, visual anthropologists, government, aid organizations, and earthquake victims took actions that signaled an incipient applied visual anthropology in practice, such as video and photographic technology and methods of engagement traditionally employed by visual anthropologists. Three case studies provide examples of this activity in the “media invisible” desert villages of Surendranagar …
Picture postcards as complex texts: The view from within an Indian esthetic and historical tradition
Private and personal communication in public is one way in which the dispatch of a postcard can be interpreted. A parallel way to interpret the postcard is by recognizing the multiple authoring agencies that give it its resulting form and its multiple messages. This paper explores these themes through an anthropological lens and ethnographic practice, within the esthetic, literary and historical traditions of visual communication in Western India
Pūjā, pūjāriandPrabhu: Religious worship in the Hindu home
This paper explores the practice of pūjā, the Hindu individual's act of daily worship, conducted alone, in the privacy of the home before an assembled pantheon of deities and other worshipful forces. Unlike the public festival, the rites of passage and the march of pilgrimage, which entail the participation of many in large spaces and which have engaged the interest of anthropologists and ethnographic filmmakers, the theater of pūjā, is small and…
Cross-Cultural Filmmaking: A Handbook for Making Documentary and Ethnographic Films and Videos
Cross-Cultural Filmmaking:. Handbook for Making Documentary and Ethnographic Films and Videos. Ilisa Barbash and Lucien Taylor. University of California Press: Berkeley, 1997.556 pp
The shaping of Gujarati Cinema: Recognizing the new in traditional cultures
The study of ethnographic film has turned to the study of indigenous productions, primarily nonfictional videos made by native persons for internal and external consumption. This study was prompted by the need to locate alternate ways of seeing that Nonwestern peoples may have. This paper suggests that it is important to study local genius by studying their fictional films as well, and suggests that newness may not be found at first encounter but…
Speculations on the concept of indic frontality prompted by questions on portraiture
This paper explores the Hindu notions of frontality in sculpture, painting and portraiture and accounts for reasons why this traditional posture continues to be a preference for depiction in India. Drawing on the religious practices found in puja or domestic worship, Hindu iconography and everyday social custom suggest the many varied arenas in which the frontal is a requisite to communication, regardless of whether that communication is with a d…
Human rights and the ethnographic encounter
(1997). Human rights and the ethnographic encounter. Visual Anthropology: Vol. 9, No. 3-4, pp. 343-346
Film reviews
Morning with Asch . Jayasinhji Jhala, director; Lindsey Powell, camera. 1996, 45 minutes, NTSC, SECAM or PAL video: English dialog. Distributor: Documentary Educational Resources, 101 Morse St., Watertown, Mass. 02172. Fax no: (617)926–9519. Video rental, $40; sale, $195. The Filmmaker Replies Osaka Story : A Documentary. Directed by Toichi Nakata, color, Japanese and Korean with English subtitles, 75 minutes, 1994. Threads of Life: Hemp and Gend…
Tribals of India: Through the Lens of Sunil Janah
Tribals of India: Through the Lens of Sunil Janah. Sunil Janah Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1993,144pp
Aesthetic Choice and Innovation in Western India: Views from the Street
Encountering Ethnographic Film
Book reviewed in this article: Innovation in Ethnographic Film . Peter Loizos. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993. 224 pp
Power and the portrait: The influence of the ruling elite on the visual text in western India
This paper traces the development of the visual tradition as represented in painting, photographs and posters in western India and illustrates the role of the succession of elite and dominant elements of societies in effecting stylistic change in local and traditional systems of visual representation. In doing so the paper explores the structure of the process of indigenous transformations and how a new element could pass through different stages…
Circles--Cycles Kathak Dance
Cross-Cultural Filmmaking: A Handbook for Making Documentary and Ethnographic Films and Videos
Cross-Cultural Filmmaking:. Handbook for Making Documentary and Ethnographic Films and Videos. Ilisa Barbash and Lucien Taylor. University of California Press: Berkeley, 1997.556 pp
In a Time of Fear and Terror Seeing, Assessing, Assisting Understanding and Living the Reality and Consequences of Disaster
In the aftermath of the terrible earthquake in India in 2001, visual anthropologists, government, aid organizations, and earthquake victims took actions that signaled an incipient applied visual anthropology in practice, such as video and photographic technology and methods of engagement traditionally employed by visual anthropologists. Three case studies provide examples of this activity in the “media invisible” desert villages of Surendranagar …
Pūjā, pūjāriandPrabhu: Religious worship in the Hindu home
This paper explores the practice of pūjā, the Hindu individual's act of daily worship, conducted alone, in the privacy of the home before an assembled pantheon of deities and other worshipful forces. Unlike the public festival, the rites of passage and the march of pilgrimage, which entail the participation of many in large spaces and which have engaged the interest of anthropologists and ethnographic filmmakers, the theater of pūjā, is small and…
Speculations on the concept of indic frontality prompted by questions on portraiture
This paper explores the Hindu notions of frontality in sculpture, painting and portraiture and accounts for reasons why this traditional posture continues to be a preference for depiction in India. Drawing on the religious practices found in puja or domestic worship, Hindu iconography and everyday social custom suggest the many varied arenas in which the frontal is a requisite to communication, regardless of whether that communication is with a d…
Power and the portrait: The influence of the ruling elite on the visual text in western India
This paper traces the development of the visual tradition as represented in painting, photographs and posters in western India and illustrates the role of the succession of elite and dominant elements of societies in effecting stylistic change in local and traditional systems of visual representation. In doing so the paper explores the structure of the process of indigenous transformations and how a new element could pass through different stages…
Representing story: Shaping memory in Western India
This article comes from a womb nurtured by several nourishing streams of inquiry. It is premised on the anthropological concepts of enchantment and encaptivation as developed by Alfred Gell, as well as by the writings of Hocart on kingship and on the importance of the senses in making meaning by Paul Stoller. It builds on the concepts of ethnofiction developed by filmmaker Jean Rouch and of Goffman's ideas about the presentation of self in ethnog…
Journey With Ganesh: Telling stories of objects acting in the world and as being acted upon in the world
Ideas about the ‘social life of things’ propounded by Arjun Appadurai ( 1986 ) and the ‘agency of objects’ suggested by Alfred Gell ( 1998 ) provide different perspectives for two stories of icons
Picture postcards as complex texts: The view from within an Indian esthetic and historical tradition
Private and personal communication in public is one way in which the dispatch of a postcard can be interpreted. A parallel way to interpret the postcard is by recognizing the multiple authoring agencies that give it its resulting form and its multiple messages. This paper explores these themes through an anthropological lens and ethnographic practice, within the esthetic, literary and historical traditions of visual communication in Western India
Encountering Ethnographic Film
Book reviewed in this article: Innovation in Ethnographic Film . Peter Loizos. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993. 224 pp
Circles--Cycles Kathak Dance
Power and the portrait: The influence of the ruling elite on the visual text in western India
This paper traces the development of the visual tradition as represented in painting, photographs and posters in western India and illustrates the role of the succession of elite and dominant elements of societies in effecting stylistic change in local and traditional systems of visual representation. In doing so the paper explores the structure of the process of indigenous transformations and how a new element could pass through different stages…
Encountering Ethnographic Film
Book reviewed in this article: Innovation in Ethnographic Film . Peter Loizos. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993. 224 pp
Tribals of India: Through the Lens of Sunil Janah
Tribals of India: Through the Lens of Sunil Janah. Sunil Janah Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1993,144pp
Aesthetic Choice and Innovation in Western India: Views from the Street
Film reviews
Morning with Asch . Jayasinhji Jhala, director; Lindsey Powell, camera. 1996, 45 minutes, NTSC, SECAM or PAL video: English dialog. Distributor: Documentary Educational Resources, 101 Morse St., Watertown, Mass. 02172. Fax no: (617)926–9519. Video rental, $40; sale, $195. The Filmmaker Replies Osaka Story : A Documentary. Directed by Toichi Nakata, color, Japanese and Korean with English subtitles, 75 minutes, 1994. Threads of Life: Hemp and Gend…
Speculations on the concept of indic frontality prompted by questions on portraiture
This paper explores the Hindu notions of frontality in sculpture, painting and portraiture and accounts for reasons why this traditional posture continues to be a preference for depiction in India. Drawing on the religious practices found in puja or domestic worship, Hindu iconography and everyday social custom suggest the many varied arenas in which the frontal is a requisite to communication, regardless of whether that communication is with a d…
Human rights and the ethnographic encounter
(1997). Human rights and the ethnographic encounter. Visual Anthropology: Vol. 9, No. 3-4, pp. 343-346
Cross-Cultural Filmmaking: A Handbook for Making Documentary and Ethnographic Films and Videos
Cross-Cultural Filmmaking:. Handbook for Making Documentary and Ethnographic Films and Videos. Ilisa Barbash and Lucien Taylor. University of California Press: Berkeley, 1997.556 pp
The shaping of Gujarati Cinema: Recognizing the new in traditional cultures
The study of ethnographic film has turned to the study of indigenous productions, primarily nonfictional videos made by native persons for internal and external consumption. This study was prompted by the need to locate alternate ways of seeing that Nonwestern peoples may have. This paper suggests that it is important to study local genius by studying their fictional films as well, and suggests that newness may not be found at first encounter but…
Picture postcards as complex texts: The view from within an Indian esthetic and historical tradition
Private and personal communication in public is one way in which the dispatch of a postcard can be interpreted. A parallel way to interpret the postcard is by recognizing the multiple authoring agencies that give it its resulting form and its multiple messages. This paper explores these themes through an anthropological lens and ethnographic practice, within the esthetic, literary and historical traditions of visual communication in Western India
Pūjā, pūjāriandPrabhu: Religious worship in the Hindu home
This paper explores the practice of pūjā, the Hindu individual's act of daily worship, conducted alone, in the privacy of the home before an assembled pantheon of deities and other worshipful forces. Unlike the public festival, the rites of passage and the march of pilgrimage, which entail the participation of many in large spaces and which have engaged the interest of anthropologists and ethnographic filmmakers, the theater of pūjā, is small and…
In a Time of Fear and Terror Seeing, Assessing, Assisting Understanding and Living the Reality and Consequences of Disaster
In the aftermath of the terrible earthquake in India in 2001, visual anthropologists, government, aid organizations, and earthquake victims took actions that signaled an incipient applied visual anthropology in practice, such as video and photographic technology and methods of engagement traditionally employed by visual anthropologists. Three case studies provide examples of this activity in the “media invisible” desert villages of Surendranagar …
Journey With Ganesh: Telling stories of objects acting in the world and as being acted upon in the world
Ideas about the ‘social life of things’ propounded by Arjun Appadurai ( 1986 ) and the ‘agency of objects’ suggested by Alfred Gell ( 1998 ) provide different perspectives for two stories of icons
Visual interventions: Applied visual anthropology
there's a great deal social researchers doing visual work can learn from Pink's book...It's a valuable resource for researchers, activists, and social service workers looking for innovative visual methodologies for collaborative research and social intervention. It makes an excellent contribution to the ongoing academic debate over the value of applied and visual social research, as well. * Contexts, Magazine of the American Sociological Associat…
Representing story: Shaping memory in Western India
This article comes from a womb nurtured by several nourishing streams of inquiry. It is premised on the anthropological concepts of enchantment and encaptivation as developed by Alfred Gell, as well as by the writings of Hocart on kingship and on the importance of the senses in making meaning by Paul Stoller. It builds on the concepts of ethnofiction developed by filmmaker Jean Rouch and of Goffman's ideas about the presentation of self in ethnog…
The Domestication of an Alien System of Representation: The Arms of the Kingdom of Halvad-Dhrangadhra
Since the 1990s with the liberalization of the Indian economy and a new emergence of wealth, this domesticated alien visual symbolic system has been revived and deployed to advance the status of individuals and groups [Appadurai 1986 Appadurai , Arjun 1986 The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press .[Crossref] , [Google Scholar]]. The agency of the heraldic device has grown, demanding a…
Drums on the Red River: The Making of a Vietnamese Ethnographic Film
This article addresses three issues. First, it examines the history of ethnographic film in Vietnam and notes the many innovations in method, practice, content and philosophy that the making of this kind of film engenders. Secondly, it examines how the adoption of a new investigative philosophy during the collaborative filming of the Chu Dong Tu Festival in northern Vietnam gave birth to an investigative strategy resulting in an innovative method…
Genealogy, Archive, Image: Interpreting Dynastic History in Western India, c.1090-2016
Traditions in Jhalavad 219 6.15 Hindu Devotional and Religious Music 219 6.15.1 Bhajan Singers 219 6.15.2 Bhajans in Dhrangadhra 220 6.15.3 Audience Interactions 222 6.15.4 Ramayana Singer 222 6.15.5 Puja 222 6.16 Muslim Devotional and Religious Music 223 6.16.1 Siddhi Culture 223 6.16.2 Siddhi in Dhrangadhra 223 6.16.3 Muslim Prayer and Recitation 224 6.17 Secular Performances 224 6.17.1 Madari Show 224 6.17.2 Langha Praise Songs 225 6.17.3 Wedd…
Chapter 8 Emergency Agents: A Birthing of Incipient Applied Visual Anthropology in the ‘Media Invisible’ Villages of Western India
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