Materializing the nation : commodities, consumption, and media in Papua New Guinea /

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""Foster shows us how seemingly banal activities like making a phone call, chewing betel nut, watching a Coke commercial may give important insights into the ways in which the nation is constructed, materialized or contested.""--Orvar Löfgren, author of On Holiday: A History of...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Foster, Robert John, 1957- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington & Indianapolis, Ind. : Indiana University Press, [2002]
Temas:
Anthropology > Papua New Guinea.
Ethnopsychology > Papua New Guinea.
Nationalism > Papua New Guinea.
Consumption (Economics) > Papua New Guinea.
Materialism > Social aspects > Papua New Guinea.
Anthropologie > Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée.
Ethnopsychologie > Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée.
Nationalisme > Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée.
Consommation (Économie politique) > Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée.
Matérialisme > Aspect social > Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Anthropology
Consumption (Economics)
Ethnopsychology
Materialism > Social aspects
Nationalism
Massenmedien
Ethnosoziologie
Nationenbildung
Privater Verbrauch
Papua New Guinea
Papua-Neuguinea
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:""Foster shows us how seemingly banal activities like making a phone call, chewing betel nut, watching a Coke commercial may give important insights into the ways in which the nation is constructed, materialized or contested.""--Orvar Löfgren, author of On Holiday: A History of VacationingWhy, in the current era of globalization, does nationality remain an important dimension of personal and collective identities? In Materializing the Nation, Robert J. Foster argues that the contested process of nation making in Papua New Guinea unfolds not only through organized politics but also through munda.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (x, 202 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-194) and index.
ISBN:9780253013613
0253013615

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