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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Screen memories: resignifying the traditional in indigenous media / Faye D. Ginsburg; title: Visual media and the primitivist perplex: colonial fantasies, indigenous imagination, and advocacy in North America / Harald E.L. Prins; title: Representation, politics, and cultural imagination in indigenous video: general points and Kayapo examples / Terence Turner; title: Spectacles of difference: cultural activism and the mass mediation of Tibet / Meg McLagan; title: Egyptian melodrama: technology of the modern subject? / Lila Abu-Lughod; title: Epic contests: television and religious identity in India / Purnima Mankekar; title: The national picture: Thai media and cultural identity / Annette Hamilton; title: Television, time, and the national imaginary in Belize / Richard R. Wilk; title: Mass media and transnational subjectivity in Shanghai: notes on (re)cosmopolitanism in a Chinese metropolis / Mayfair Mei-hui Yang; title: A Marshall plan of the mind: the political economy of a Kazakh soap opera / Ruth Mandel; title: Mapping Hmong media in diasporic space / Louisa Schein; title: Putting American public television documentary in its places / Barry Dornfeld; title: Culture in the ad world: producing the Latin look / Arlene Dávila; title: "And yet my heart is still Indian": the Bombay film industry and the (h)Indianization of Hollywood / Tejaswini Ganti; title: Arrival scenes: complicity and media ethnography in the Bolivian public sphere / Jeff D. Himpele; title: The materiality of cinema theaters in northern Nigeria / Brian Larkin; title: Mobile machines and fluid audiences: rethinking reception through Zambian radio culture / Debra Spitulnik; title: The Indian work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction: or, what happens when peasants "get hold" of images / Christopher Pinney; title: Live or dead? Televising theater in Bali / Mark Hobart; title: A room with a voice: mediation and mediumship in Thailand's information age / Rosalind C. Morris.