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Subject
General, Economics / General, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Ethnopsychology, Oceania
Features
Illustrated
Topic
Asia
ISBN
9780253215499
Subject Area
Psychology, Business & Economics, History, Social Science, Philosophy
Publication Name
Materializing the Nation : Commodities, Consumption, and Media in Papua New Guinea
Item Length
9.3 in
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Publication Year
2002
Type
Textbook
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Item Height
0.6 in
Author
Robert J. Foster
Item Width
6.1 in
Item Weight
12 Oz
Number of Pages
216 Pages

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Why, 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 mundane engagements with commodities and mass media. He offers a thoughtful critique of recent approaches to nationalism and consumption and an ethnographic perspective on constructs of the nation found in official policy documents, letters to the editor, school textbooks, song lyrics, advertisements, and other materials. This volume will appeal to readers interested in the links among nationalism, consumption, and media, in Melanesia and elsewhere.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Indiana University Press
ISBN-10
0253215498
ISBN-13
9780253215499
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2272070

Product Key Features

Author
Robert J. Foster
Publication Name
Materializing the Nation : Commodities, Consumption, and Media in Papua New Guinea
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Subject
General, Economics / General, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Ethnopsychology, Oceania
Publication Year
2002
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Psychology, Business & Economics, History, Social Science, Philosophy
Number of Pages
216 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
9.3 in
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Width
6.1 in
Item Weight
12 Oz

Additional Product Features

LCCN
2002-001480
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Lc Classification Number
Gn671.N5f67 2002
Grade from
College Graduate Student
Reviews
"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 Vacationing
Table of Content
Preliminary Table of Contents: Acknowledgments Introduction: Everyday Nation Making: The Case of Papua New Guinea 1. Take Care of Public Telephones: Moral Education and Nation-State Formation 2. Your Money, Our Money, the Government's Money: Finance and Fetishism in Melanesia 3. Print Advertisements and Nation Making 4. Commercial Mass Media: Notes on Agency, Bodies, and Commodity Consumption 5. The Commercial Construction of 'New' Nations 6. News of the World: Millenarian Christianity and the Olympic Torch Relay 7. Globalization: A Soft Drink Perspective Notes References Index
Copyright Date
2002
Dewey Decimal
305.8/009953
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes

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