Media worlds anthropology on new terrain
This groundbreaking volume showcases the exciting work emerging from the ethnography of media, a burgeoning new area in anthropology that expands both social theory and ethnographic fieldwork to examine the way media—film, television, video—are used in societies around the globe, often in places tha...
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Berkeley ; Los Angeles ; London
University of California Press
2002, ©2002
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: INTRODUCTION 2
- I. CULTURAL ACTIVISM AND MINORITY CLAIMS. 1. Screen Memories: Resignifying the Traditional in Indigenous Media
- Faye D. Ginsburg 39
- 2. Visual Media and the Primitivist Perplex: Colonial Fantasies, Indigenous Imagination, and Advocacy in North America
- Harald E. L. Prins 58
- 3. Representation, Politics, and Cultural Imagination in Indigenous Video: General Points and Kayapo Examples
- Terence Turner 75
- 4. Spectacles of Difference: Cultural Activism and the Mass Mediation of Tibet
- Meg McLagan 90
- II. THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF NATION-STATES. 5. Egyptian Melodrama-Technology of the Modern Subject?
- Lila Abu-Lughod zx5
- 6. Epic Contests: Television and Religious Identity in India
- Purnima Mankekar z34
- 7. The National Picture: Thai Media and Cultural Identity
- Annette Hamilton 52
- 8. Television, Time, and the National Imaginary in Belize
- Richard R Wilk 171
- III. TRANSNATIONAL CIRCUITS. 9. Mass Media and Transnational Subjectivity in Shanghai: Notes on (Re)Cosmopolitanism in a Chinese Metropolis
- Mayfair Mei-hui Yang 189
- 10. A Marshall Plan of the Mind: The Political Economy of a Kazakh Soap Opera
- Ruth Mandel 201
- 11. Mapping Hmong Media in Diasporic Space
- Louisa Schein 229
- IV. THE SOCIAL SITES OF PRODUCTION. 12. Putting American Public Television Documentary in Its Places
- Barry Dornfeld 247
- 13. Culture in the Ad World: Producing the Latin Look
- Arlene Ddvila 264
- 14. "And Yet My Heart Is Still Indian": The Bombay Film Industry and the (H)Indianization of Hollywood
- Tejaswini Ganti 281
- 15. Arrival Scenes: Complicity and Media Ethnography in the Bolivian Public Sphere
- Jeff D. Himpele 301
- V. THE SOCIAL LIFE OF TECHNOLOGY. 16. The Materiality of Cinema Theaters in Northern Nigeria
- Brian Larkin 319
- 17. Mobile Machines and Fluid Audiences: Rethinking Reception through Zambian Radio Culture
- Debra Spitulnik 337
- 18. The Indian Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: Or, What Happens When Peasants "Get Hold" of Images
- Christopher Pinney 355
- 19. Live or Dead? Televising Theater in Bali
- Mark Hobart 370
- 20. A Room with a Voice: Mediation and Mediumship in Thailand's Information Age
- Rosalind C. Morris 383.