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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 t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Ginsburg, Faye D., Abu-Lughod, Lila, Larkin, Brian
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2002.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Screen memories: resignifying the traditional in indigenous media / Faye D. Ginsburg
  • Visual media and the primitivist perplex: colonial fantasies, indigenous imagination, and advocacy in North America / Harald E.L. Prins
  • Representation, politics, and cultural imagination in indigenous video: general points and Kayapo examples / Terence Turner
  • Spectacles of difference: cultural activism and the mass mediation of Tibet / Meg McLagan
  • Egyptian melodrama: technology of the modern subject? / Lila Abu-Lughod
  • Epic contests: television and religious identity in India / Purnima Mankekar
  • The national picture: Thai media and cultural identity / Annette Hamilton
  • Television, time, and the national imaginary in Belize / Richard R. Wilk
  • Mass media and transnational subjectivity in Shanghai: notes on (re)cosmopolitanism in a Chinese metropolis / Mayfair Mei-hui Yang
  • A Marshall plan of the mind: the political economy of a Kazakh soap opera / Ruth Mandel
  • Mapping Hmong media in diasporic space / Louisa Schein
  • Putting American public television documentary in its places / Barry Dornfeld
  • Culture in the ad world: producing the Latin look / Arlene Dávila
  • "And yet my heart is still Indian": the Bombay film industry and the (h)Indianization of Hollywood / Tejaswini Ganti
  • Arrival scenes: complicity and media ethnography in the Bolivian public sphere / Jeff D. Himpele
  • The materiality of cinema theaters in northern Nigeria / Brian Larkin
  • Mobile machines and fluid audiences: rethinking reception through Zambian radio culture / Debra Spitulnik
  • The Indian work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction: or, what happens when peasants "get hold" of images / Christopher Pinney
  • Live or dead? Televising theater in Bali / Mark Hobart
  • A room with a voice: mediation and mediumship in Thailand's information age / Rosalind C. Morris.