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 |
Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Subject |
Anthropology -- Papua New Guinea
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Ethnopsychology -- Papua New Guinea
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Nationalism -- Papua New Guinea
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Consumption (Economics) -- Papua New Guinea
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Materialism -- Social aspects -- Papua New Guinea
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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Anthropology
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Consumption (Economics)
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Ethnopsychology
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Materialism -- Social aspects
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Nationalism
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Massenmedien
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Ethnosoziologie
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Nationenbildung
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Privater Verbrauch
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Papua New Guinea
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Papua-Neuguinea
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780253013613 |
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0253013615 |
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