The anthropology of media : a reader

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The anthropology of media : a reader

edited by Kelly Askew and Richard R. Wilk

（Blackwell readers in anthropology, 2, 3）

Blackwell Publishers, 2002

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

There is a book with which the statement of a series number is "2"

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Volume

ISBN 9780631220930

Description

The Anthropology of Media: A Reader Brings together key writings in the emergent field of the anthropology of media for the first time Integrates key themes in the anthropology of media by means of editorial commentary Explores the theoretical issues that have arisen from ethnographic studies of media offers a critical overview of how mass media represents and constructs both Western and non-Western cultures. Moving beyond earlier anthropological preoccupation with ethnographic film and drawing on the recent explosion of creative studies of culture and media, this volume heralds the emergence of a new field - the anthropology of media - and brings its key literature together for the first time.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments. Timeline of Media Development. Introduction: Kelly Askew and Richard R. Wilk. Part I: Seeing/Hearing is Believing: Technology and Truth:. 1. The Medium is the Message: Marshall McLuhan. 2. The Technology and the Society: Raymond Williams.. 3. Mead and Bateson Debate: On the Use of the Camera in Anthropology: Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson. 4. The Ambiguity of the Photograph: John Berger. 5. Save, Save the Lore!: Erika Brady. Part II: Representing Others:. 6. The Gaze of Western Humanism: James C. Faris. 7. The Color of Sex: Postwar Photographic Histories of Race and Gender: Catherine Lutz and Jane Collins. 8. The Imperial Imaginary: Ella Shohat and Robert Stam. 9. Complicities of Style: Dave MacDougall. Part III: Representing Selves:. 10. Hollywood and the USA: Hortense Powdermaker. 11. Yoruba Photography: How the Yoruba See Themselves: Stephen F. Sprague. 12. Relationships: Daniel Miller and Don Slater. 13. Mediating Culture: Indigenous Media, Ethnographic Film, and the Production of Identity: Faye Ginsburg. Part IV: Active Audiences:. 14. Radio Texture: Between Self and Others: Jo Taachi. 15. The Tongan Tradition of Going to the Movies: Elizabeth Hahn. 16. Rambo's Wife Saves the Day: Subjugating the Gaze and Subverting the Narrative in a Papua New Guinean Swamp: Don Kulick and Margaret Willson. 17. 'It's Destroying a Whole Generation': Television and Moral Discourse in Belize: Rick Wilk. 18. National Texts and Gendered Lives: An Ethnography of Television Viewers in a North Indian City: Purnima Mankekar. Part V: Power, Colonialism, Nationalism:. 19. Image-Based Culture: Advertising and Popular Culture: Sut Jhally. 20. The Global and the Local in International Communications: Annabelle Sreberny-Mohammadi. 21. In Rascally Signs in Sacred Places: The Politics of Culture in Nicaragua: David E Whisnant. 22. The Objects of Soap Opera: Egyptian Television and the Cultural Politics of Modernity: Lila Abu-Lughod. Resource Bibliography. Index.
Volume

: pbk ISBN 9780631220947

Description

The Anthropology of Media: A Reader Brings together key writings in the emergent field of the anthropology of media for the first time Integrates key themes in the anthropology of media by means of editorial commentary Explores the theoretical issues that have arisen from ethnographic studies of media offers a critical overview of how mass media represents and constructs both Western and non-Western cultures. Moving beyond earlier anthropological preoccupation with ethnographic film and drawing on the recent explosion of creative studies of culture and media, this volume heralds the emergence of a new field - the anthropology of media - and brings its key literature together for the first time.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments viii Timeline of Media Development x Introduction 1 Kelly Askew Part I Seeing/Hearing is Believing: Technology and Truth 15 Part II Representing Others 73 Part III Representing Selves 157 Part IV Active Audiences 237 Part V Power, Colonialism, Nationalism 323 Resource Bibliography 394 Index 406

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  • NCID
    BA55979398
  • ISBN
    • 0631220933
    • 0631220941
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Malden, Mass.
  • Pages/Volumes
    xi, 416 p.
  • Size
    25 cm
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