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Materializing the Nation : Commodities, Consumption, and Media in Papua New Guinea /

""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.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : everyday nation making: the case of Papua New Guinea
  • State-sponsored nation making. Take care of public telephones : moral education and nation-state formation. Your money, our money, the government's money : finance and fetishism in Melanesia
  • Commercial nation making. Print advertisements and nation making. Commercial mass media : notes on agency, bodies, and commodity consumption. The commercial construction of "new" nations
  • Nation making in this era of globalization. News of the world : Millenarian Christianity and the Olympic Torch Relay. Globalization : a soft drink perspective.