Prime-time society
Subtitle: an anthropological analysis of television and culture
By: Conrad Phillip Kottak.
Series: The Wadsworth modern anthropology library
Publisher: Wadsworth Pub. Co.
Published: 1990
Place of publication: Belmont, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
Subjects: Television broadcasting -- Social aspects -- Brazil; Television -- Social aspects -- United States
Other titles: Television and culture.; Anthropological analysis of television and culture.
Description: Supplement for introductory cultural anthropology courses taken in the freshman year; also appropriate for courses in field work/field methods, world cultures, applied anthropology, Latin American studies, communications, sociology. * Comparative study (U.S. and Brazil) of television's social and cultural effects on human behavior. * Focuses on group behavior as well as the individual, and examines the phenomena of 'TV conditioned behavior'. --Publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-240).