Media Worlds

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ISBN: 9780520232310 | 0520232313
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 8/1/2002

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A pathbreaking collection of essays in the ethnography of media--a burgeoning new area in anthropology. The co-editors are powerhouses, as are the contributors.

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Preface

xiii

Introduction

(38)

I. CULTURAL ACTIVISM AND MINORITY CLAIMS

Screen Memories: Resignifying the Traditional in Indigenous Media

(19)

Faye D. Ginsburg

Visual Media and the Primitivist Perplex: Colonial Fantasies, Indigenous Imagination, and Advocacy in North America

(17)

Harald E. L. Prins

Representation, Politics, and Cultural Imagination in Indigenous Video: General Points and Kayapo Examples

(15)

Terence Turner

Spectacles of Difference: Cultural Activism and the Mass Mediation of Tibet

(25)

Meg McLagan

II. THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF NATION-STATES

Egyptian Melodrama-Technology of the Modern Subject?

115

(19)

Lila Abu-Lughod

Epic Contests: Television and Religious Identity in India

134

(18)

Purnima Mankekar

The National Picture: Thai Media and Cultural Identity

152

(19)

Annette Hamilton

Television, Time, and the National Imaginary in Belize

171

(18)

Richard R. Wilk

III. TRANSNATIONAL CIRCUITS

Mass Media and Transnational Subjectivity in Shanghai: Notes on (Re)Cosmopolitanism in a Chinese Metropolis

189

(22)

Mayfair Mei-hui Yang

A Marshall Plan of the Mind: The Political Economy of a Kazakh Soap Opera

211

(18)

Ruth Mandel

Mapping Hmong Media in Diasporic Space

229

(18)

Louisa Schein

IV. THE SOCIAL SITES OF PRODUCTION

Putting American Public Television Documentary in Its Places

247

(17)

Barry Dornfeld

Culture in the Ad World: Producing the Latin Look

264

(17)

Arlene Davila

``And Yet My Heart Is Still Indian'': The Bombay Film Industry and the (H)Indianization of Hollywood

281

(20)

Tejaswini Ganti

Arrival Scenes: Complicity and Media Ethnography in the Bolivian Public Sphere

301

(18)

Jeff D. Himpele

V. THE SOCIAL LIFE OF TECHNOLOGY

The Materiality of Cinema Theaters in Northern Nigeria

319

(18)

Brian Larkin

Mobile Machines and Fluid Audiences: Rethinking Reception through Zambian Radio Culture

337

(18)

Debra Spitulnik

The Indian Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: Or, What Happens When Peasants ``Get Hold'' of Images

355

(15)

Christopher Pinney

Live or Dead? Televising Theater in Bali

370

(13)

Mark Hobart

A Room with a Voice: Mediation and Mediumship in Thailand's Information Age

383

(16)

Rosalind C. Morn's

Contributors

399

(4)

Index

403

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Media Worlds

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