Sasanka Perera & Dev Nath Pathak 
Intersections of Contemporary Art, Anthropology and Art History in South Asia [PDF ebook] 
Decoding Visual Worlds

Chapter 1. Intersections and Implications: When Anthropology, Art Practice and Art History Converge; Sasanka Perera & Dev Nath Pathak.- Section One. Contours of Quest: Arts at Crossroad.- Chapter 2. Mimicking Anthropologists: Re-Membering a Photo Archive via Pata Paintings, Performative Mimesis and Photo-Performance; Parul Dave Mukherji.- Chapter 3. Reframing Contexts for Pakistani Contemporary Art; Salima Hashmi & Farida Batool.- Chapter 4. The ‘Art’ of Ethnography: Feminist Ethnography & Women Artists in South Asia; Pooja Kalita.- Section Two. Political & Aesthetic: Explorations of Intersections.- Chapter 5. Globalization and Local Anxieties in the Art of Bangladesh: The Interface of History and the Contemporary; Lala Rukh Selim.- Chapter 6. Between Anthropology and History: The Entangled Lives of Jangarh Singh Shyam and Jagdish Swaminathan; Sandip K. Luis.- Chapter 7. Towards Blurring the Boundaries in Anthropology: Reading Jamini Roy Today; Jyoti.- Chapter 8.Imposed, Interrupted and Other Identities: Rupture as Opportunity in the Art History of Pakistan; Niilofur Farrukh.- Section Three. Art for Public: Individual, Institutions and Issues.- Chapter 9. Transcending and Subverting Boundaries: Understanding the Dynamics of Street Art Scene in Nepal; Binit Gurung.- Chapter 10. Ruptures of Rasheed Araeen in the Politics of Visual Art: Towards a New Art Discourse in Pakistan; Amra Ali.- Chapter 11. Collectivism in Cotemporary Sri Lankan Art: The History of an Usual Case of Artists; Anoli Perera.

Sasanka Perera is Professor of Sociology at South Asian University, New Delhi, India. He is the author of, among other publications, Artists Remember; Artists Narrate:  Memory and Representation inn Contemporary Sri Lankan Visual Arts (2011), Violence and The Burden of Memory: Remembrance and Erasure in Sinhala Consciousness (2015) and Warzone Tourism in Sri Lanka: Tales from Darker Places in Paradise (2016).

Dev Nath Pathak is Assistant Professor of Sociology at South Asian University, New Delhi, India. He is the author of Living and Dying: Meanings in Maithili Folklore (2018), the editor of Another South Asia! (2017), the co-editor, with Sasanka Perera, of Culture and Politics in South Asia: Performative Communication (2017) and he also co-edited, with Ravi Kumar and Sasanka Perera, Sociology and Social Anthropology in South Asia: Histories and Practices (2018).