Abstract
To explore the archive of the USIS in South Asia frequently means stumbling across a USIS officer, film screening, or library book on the margins of an archive dedicated to other institutions, histories, or principles. The USIS rarely appears in South Asian professional repositories or personal collections as a primary focus. Instead, when we, a political historian (Uddin) and a media anthropologist (Hoek), encounter the USIS in archives in South Asia, it appears to us in a different guise than in the archives created by and for the USIS in North America, and mostly part of explorations not centrally focused on the USIS. But there they are.
Recommended Citation
Uddin, Layli and Hoek, Lotte
(2022)
"On the Margins of the USIS Archive in South Asia: Histories of Media and Politics,"
The Journal of e-Media Studies: Vol. 6:
Iss.
1, Article 11.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1349/PS1.1938-6060.A.484
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.dartmouth.edu/joems/vol6/iss1/11
Figure 1]. While Layli’s document was recently declassified, Lotte’s screenshot was from a popular film magazine. “Similar itinerary?" [\"USIS Film Producer in Town,\" Eastern Film (magazine), May 1963] Figure 1: The USIS in Eastern Film, May 1963 ["USIS Film Producer in Town," Eastern Film (magazine), May 1963]