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Volume 2

Published September 20, 2022

Issue description

The second volume of The Highlander Journal (2022) expands its exploration of Highland Asia, engaging with themes of ritual, memory, visual culture, and representation. The issue opens with two articles: Blurred Boundaries, a study of cultural transition through textiles in Northeast India, and Mumuret, Tom Crowley’s visual ethnography of the Kalasha, exploring artistic representation and identity on the Afghan-Pakistan frontier. The photo essay section begins with Ishita Mahajan’s Sanctum Sensorium, which explores the sensory and ritual presence of mobile deities in the Kullu Valley through the performative movement of their chariots. Other visual contributions include Tarun Bhartiya’s evocative Niam/Faith/Hynñiewtrep, which interrogates faith, colonial legacies, and indigenous agency through 100 striking postcards; Nigel Shakespear’s This is Io, reflecting on memory and the ethics of repatriation in colonial-era photographs from Tamlu, Nagaland; and The Ritualistic World of the Tiwa Community, an ethnographic study of ritual performance. The volume concludes with a book review by N. Lemtur, critically engaging with Thomas Simpson’s The Frontier in British India: Space, Science, and Power in the Nineteenth Century. Through these diverse contributions, The Highlander Journal continues to foster rigorous, interdisciplinary discussions on the histories, cultures, and contemporary realities of highland communities.

Articles

  1. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14974670
  2. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14974769

Photo Essays

  1. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15710300
  2. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14974855
  3. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14974902
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14975128

Book Reviews

  1. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14975181