Media worlds
Subtitle: anthropology on new terrain
By: edited by Faye D. Ginsburg, Lila Abu-Lughod, and Brian Larkin.
Contributors: Ginsburg, Faye D.; Abu-Lughod, Lila.; Larkin, Brian.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 413
Subjects: Mass media and culture.
Description: This landmark collection maps and motivates the anthropological voice in media studies by locating the media in worlds of practice, sentiment, debate and dissent. Using such vivid examples as the image management of the Dalai Lama and the social organization of Nigerian cinema theatres, the authors remind us that media machineries are not more magical than the social worlds they inhabit and project. [Back cover].
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: INTRODUCTION 2; title: I. CULTURAL ACTIVISM AND MINORITY CLAIMS; title: 1. Screen Memories: Resignifying the Traditional in Indigenous Media; title: FayeD. Ginsburg 39; title: 2. Visual Media and the Primitivist Perplex: Colonial Fantasies, Indigenous Imagination, and Advocacy in North America; title: Harald E. L. Prins 58; title: 3. Representation, Politics, and Cultural Imagination in Indigenous Video: General Points and Kayapo Examples; title: Terence Turner 75; title: 4. Spectacles of Difference: Cultural Activism and the Mass Mediation of Tibet; title: Meg McLagan 90; title: II. THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF NATION-STATES; title: 5. Egyptian Melodrama-Technology of the Modern Subject?; title: Lila Abu-Lughod zx5; title: 6. Epic Contests: Television and Religious Identity in India; title: Purnima Mankekar z34; title: 7. The National Picture: Thai Media and Cultural Identity; title: Annette Hamilton 52; title: 8. Television, Time, and the National Imaginary in Belize; title: Richard R Wilk 171; title: III. TRANSNATIONAL CIRCUITS; title: 9. Mass Media and Transnational Subjectivity in Shanghai: Notes on (Re)Cosmopolitanism in a Chinese Metropolis; title: Mayfair Mei-hui Yang 189; title: 10. A Marshall Plan of the Mind: The Political Economy of a Kazakh Soap Opera; title: Ruth Mandel 201; title: 11. Mapping Hmong Media in Diasporic Space; title: Louisa Schein 229; title: IV. THE SOCIAL SITES OF PRODUCTION; title: 12. Putting American Public Television Documentary in Its Places; title: Barry Dornfeld 247; title: 13. Culture in the Ad World: Producing the Latin Look; title: Arlene Ddvila 264; title: 14. "And Yet My Heart Is Still Indian": The Bombay Film Industry and the (H)Indianization of Hollywood; title: Tejaswini Ganti 281; title: 15. Arrival Scenes: Complicity and Media Ethnography in the Bolivian Public Sphere; title: JeffD. Himpele 301; title: V. THE SOCIAL LIFE OF TECHNOLOGY; title: 16. The Materiality of Cinema Theaters in Northern Nigeria; title: Brian Larkin 319; title: 17. Mobile Machines and Fluid Audiences: Rethinking Reception through Zambian Radio Culture; title: Debra Spitulnik 337; title: 18. The Indian Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: Or, What Happens When Peasants "Get Hold" of Images; title: ChristopherPinney 355; title: 19. Live or Dead? Televising Theater in Bali; title: Mark Hobart 370; title: 20. A Room with a Voice: Mediation and Mediumship in Thailand's Information Age; title: Rosalind C. Morris 383.