| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 413 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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 that have been off the map of conventional media studies |
| Analysis |
anthropologists |
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anthropology |
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cross cultural |
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cultural history |
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cultural studies |
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ethnographic |
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ethnographics |
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ethnography |
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film history |
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film studies |
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global |
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international |
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media history |
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media studies |
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media |
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multimedia |
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pop culture |
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social history |
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social studies |
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television history |
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television |
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theoretical |
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transnational |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Mass media and culture.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Media Studies.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
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Mass media and culture
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Massenmedien
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Anthropologie
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Massamedia.
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Culturele antropologie.
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USA
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Ginsburg, Faye D
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Abu-Lughod, Lila
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Larkin, Brian
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| ISBN |
9780520928169 |
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0520928164 |
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9780520224483 |
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0520224485 |
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9780520232310 |
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0520232313 |
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159734740X |
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9781597347402 |
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1417520302 |
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9781417520305 |
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1282759019 |
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9781282759015 |
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9786612759017 |
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6612759011 |
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