Markus Schleiter is Lecturer in the Institute of Ethnology at Münster University, Germany.Erik de Maaker is Assistant Professor in the Department of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology at Leiden University, The Netherlands.

• List of figures Notes on contributors Acknowledgements 1 Introduction: screening indigeneity and nation ERIK DE MAAKER AND MARKUS SCHLEITERPART IVernacular popular culture: movies and music videos 2 Himachali indigeneity: Gaddi music VCDs and expressions of belonging ANJA WAGNER3 ‘Manbhum’ videos and their many contours: contexts, contents, and the comic mode as a subversive form MADHUJA MUKHERJEE4 Films, flirts, and no dances: a village video night and the circulation of popular Santali VCDs among Birhor people in India MARKUS SCHLEITER5 The diffused substance of Bhojpuri indigeneity AKSHAYA KUMARPART IIPoliticising 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 CHANDRA7 Giving voice? Experiences of collaboration on indigenous video-making projects RADHIKA BORDE8 From clanships to cyber communities: India’s Northeast in the digital age DAISY HASAN9 Projecting and rejecting indigeneity: ‘From Bangladesh with Love’ CARMEN BRANDTPART IIIDocumenting and fictionalising indigeneity 10 Made in India: ethnographic films beyond visual anthropology GIULIA BATTAGLIA11 Critiquing stereotypes? Documentary as dialogue with the Garo ERIK DE MAAKER12 YouTube and the rising trend of indigenous folk dance: the case of the sakela dance of the Rai in Nepal and their diaspora MARION WETTSTEIN13 Identity, indigeneity, and cultural props: portraying the Tai-Ahoms in two Assamese films based on the legend of Joymati ARZUMAN ARA14 Polyandry, sexuality and the (mis)representation of indigenous women on Indian screens. The film Sonam: The Fortunate One MARA MATTA15 Afterword: meditations on media in digital times ROBIN JEFFREYIndex

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