Materializing the nation : commodities, consumption, and media in Papua New Guinea

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Materializing the nation : commodities, consumption, and media in Papua New Guinea

Robert J. Foster

Indiana University Press, 2002

  • : cloth
  • : pbk

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Bibliography: p. 183-194

Includes index

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巻冊次

: pbk ISBN 9780253215499

内容説明

"Foster shows us how seemingly banal activities like making a phone call, chewing betel nut, watching a Coke commercial may give important insights into the ways in which the nation is constructed, materialized or contested."-Orvar Loefgren, author of On Holiday: A History of Vacationing Why, in the current era of globalization, does nationality remain an important dimension of personal and collective identities? In Materializing the Nation, Robert J. Foster argues that the contested process of nation making in Papua New Guinea unfolds not only through organized politics but also through mundane engagements with commodities and mass media. He offers a thoughtful critique of recent approaches to nationalism and consumption and an ethnographic perspective on constructs of the nation found in official policy documents, letters to the editor, school textbooks, song lyrics, advertisements, and other materials. This volume will appeal to readers interested in the links among nationalism, consumption, and media, in Melanesia and elsewhere.

目次

Preliminary Table of Contents: Acknowledgments Introduction: Everyday Nation Making: The Case of Papua New Guinea 1. Take Care of Public Telephones: Moral Education and Nation-State Formation 2. Your Money, Our Money, the Government's Money: Finance and Fetishism in Melanesia 3. Print Advertisements and Nation Making 4. Commercial Mass Media: Notes on Agency, Bodies, and Commodity Consumption 5. The Commercial Construction of 'New' Nations 6. News of the World: Millenarian Christianity and the Olympic Torch Relay 7. Globalization: A Soft Drink Perspective Notes References Index
巻冊次

: cloth ISBN 9780253341471

内容説明

Why, in the current era of globalization, does nationality remain an important dimension of personal and collective identities? In Materializing the Nation, Robert J. Foster argues that the contested process of nation making in Papua New Guinea unfolds not only through organized politics but also through mundane engagements with commodities and mass media. He offers a thoughtful critique of recent approaches to nationalism and consumption and an ethnographic perspective on constructs of the nation found in official policy documents, letters to the editor, school textbooks, song lyrics, advertisements, and other materials. This volume will appeal to readers interested in the links among nationalism, consumption, and media, in Melanesia and elsewhere.

目次

  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Everyday Nation Making: The Case of Papua New Guinea
  • 1. Take Care of Public Telephones: Moral Education and Nation-State Formation
  • 2. Your Money, Our Money, the Government's Money: Finance and Fetishism in Melanesia
  • 3. Print Advertisements and Nation Making
  • 4. Commercial Mass Media: Notes on Agency, Bodies, and Commodity Consumption
  • 5. The Commercial Construction of 'New' Nations
  • 6. News of the World: Millenarian Christianity and the Olympic Torch Relay
  • 7. Globalization: A Soft Drink Perspective
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

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