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Author Foster, Robert John, 1957- author.

Title Materializing the nation : commodities, consumption, and media in Papua New Guinea / Robert J. Foster
Published Bloomington & Indianapolis, Ind. : Indiana University Press, [2002]
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Description 1 online resource (x, 202 pages) : illustrations
Contents 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
Summary ""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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-194) and index
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Subject Anthropology -- Papua New Guinea
Ethnopsychology -- Papua New Guinea
Nationalism -- Papua New Guinea
Consumption (Economics) -- Papua New Guinea
Materialism -- Social aspects -- Papua New Guinea
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Anthropology
Consumption (Economics)
Ethnopsychology
Materialism -- Social aspects
Nationalism
Massenmedien
Ethnosoziologie
Nationenbildung
Privater Verbrauch
Papua New Guinea
Papua-Neuguinea
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780253013613
0253013615