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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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bloomington & Indianapolis, Ind. :
Indiana University Press,
[2002]
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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.