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
Autor principal: Foster, Robert John, 1957- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington & Indianapolis, Ind. : Indiana University Press, [2002]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Privater Verbrauch.
Nationenbildung.
Ethnosoziologie.
Massenmedien.
Privater Verbrauch
Nationenbildung
Ethnosoziologie
Massenmedien
Nationalism.
Materialism > Social aspects.
Ethnopsychology.
Consumption (Economics)
Anthropology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
Materialisme > Aspect social > Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinee.
Consommation (Économie politique) > Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinee.
Nationalisme > Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinee.
Ethnopsychologie > Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinee.
Anthropologie > Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinee.
Materialism > Social aspects > Papua New Guinea.
Consumption (Economics) > Papua New Guinea.
Nationalism > Papua New Guinea.
Ethnopsychology > Papua New Guinea.
Anthropology > Papua New Guinea.
Papua-Neuguinea.
Papua-Neuguinea
Papua New Guinea.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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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 (216 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9780253013613

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