Media Worlds Anthropology on New Terrain

Name: Media Worlds Anthropology on New Terrain
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ISBN: 9780520232310

ISBN-10: 0520232313

ISBN-13: 9780520232310

Edition: 2010

Authors: Faye D. Ginsburg, Lila Abu-Lughod, Brian Larkin

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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. The contributors, key figures in this new field, cover topics ranging from indigenous media projects around the world to the unexpected effects of state control of media to the local impact of film and television as they travel transnationally. Their essays, mostly new work produced for this volume, bring provocative new theoretical…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 10/23/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 429
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English

Ahmad H. Sa'di is a senior lecturer in the Department of Politics and Government at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. He has published widely on political, social, and economic aspects of the lives of Palestinians in Israel.Lila Abu-Lughod is professor of anthropology and gender studies at Columbia University. Her books include Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society, Writing Women's Worlds: Bedouin Stories, and Dramas of Nationhood: The Politics of Television in Egypt.



List of Illustrations


Preface


Introduction



Cultural Activism and Minority Claims



Screen Memories: Resignifying the Traditional in Indigenous Media




Visual Media and the Primitivist Perplex: Colonial Fantasies, Indigenous Imagination, and Advocacy in North America




Representation, Politics, and Cultural Imagination in Indigenous Video: General Points and Kayapo Examples




Spectacles of Difference: Cultural Activism and the Mass Mediation of Tibet




The Cultural Politics of Nation-States



Egyptian Melodrama--Technology of the Modern Subject?




Epic Contests: Television and Religious Identity in India




The National Picture: Thai Media and Cultural Identity




Television, Time, and the National Imaginary in Belize




Transnational Circuits



Mass Media and Transnational Subjectivity in Shanghai: Notes on (Re)Cosmopolitanism in a Chinese Metropolis




A Marshall Plan of the Mind: The Political Economy of a Kazakh Soap Opera




Mapping Hmong Media in Diasporic Space




The Social Sites of Production



Putting American Public Television Documentary in Its Places




Culture in the Ad World: Producing the Latin Look




"And Yet My Heart Is Still Indian": The Bombay Film Industry and the (H)Indianization of Hollywood




Arrival Scenes: Complicity and Media Ethnography in the Bolivian Public Sphere




The Social Life of Technology



The Materiality of Cinema Theaters in Northern Nigeria




Mobile Machines and Fluid Audiences: Rethinking Reception through Zambian Radio Culture




The Indian Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: Or, What Happens When Peasants "Get Hold" of Images




Live or Dead? Televising Theater in Bali




A Room with a Voice: Mediation and Mediumship in Thailand's Information Age



Contributors


Index