Materializing the nation
Subtitle: commodities, consumption, and media in Papua New Guinea
By: Robert J. Foster.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 202
Subjects: Anthropology -- Papua New Guinea.; Ethnopsychology -- Papua New Guinea.; Nationalism -- Papua New Guinea.; Consumption (Economics) -- Papua New Guinea.; Materialism -- Social aspects -- Papua New Guinea.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-194) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : everyday nation making: the case of Papua New Guinea; title: 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; title: Commercial nation making. Print advertisements and nation making. Commercial mass media : notes on agency, bodies, and commodity consumption. The commercial construction of "new" nations; title: Nation making in this era of globalization. News of the world : Millenarian Christianity and the Olympic Torch Relay. Globalization : a soft drink perspective.